Why are you and I surrounded by Idiots (In fact, sometimes I’m not sure about you….) - it’s a website - relaid a couple of reports from security lab F-Secure. Apparently in Japan, “McDonald’s Japan shipped 10,000 MP3 players as prizes in a competition they organized with Coca-Cola” which “were also preloaded with a variant of the QQPass password-stealing trojan” [link]. Bingo, you’ve won your life savings being stolen from you through your online banking.

The other report was that Apple managed to install the RavMonE.exe virus on a “small percentage” of their ipods in the factory. I wonder if it was anything like the “small percentage” of ipods that Apple said had battery and hard drive problems (when I had to return my first one within months because of refusal to charge, the Apple techie said that it was by no means an uncommon problem even though Apple insisted it was only a small number of units that had been affected). Anyway, it’s reported on the Apple website, as F-Secure point out, it is constantly referred to as a “Windows virus” as if somehow the blame lies with Microsoft for creating such a sensitive creature in the first place rather than their own clear negligence.

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