__/ [ Doug Mentohl ] on Friday 06 April 2007 13:53 \__
> 'Podloso cannot be launched automatically without user involvement.'
>
> 'the virus scans the device's hard disk and infects all executable .elf
> format files'
>
> How does it get onto the iPod?
>
> Will it write to root owned files or is it restricted to /home and /tmp
> like on most Linux systems.
>
> Will it execute from a noex partition
>
> Can we see a sample of this virus ..
>
> http://apple.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=07/04/06/044208
The majority of the articles are referring to this humorously, claiming it's
just a cute way of making a case for a 'virus' that does not spread itself
and requires some advanced user interaction in order to be deployed and then
invoked. It's like one of those batch file 'viruses' I wrote when I was 12.
Nothing but a bunch of commands and some social engineering.
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