Comments on: Run for you lives!

By: Fake Jon Ive

Fake Jon Ive — Mon, 09 Apr 2007 06:03:38 +0000

A little help please?

I’ve download and installed the virus, but I can’t get it to run.

Has anyone managed to make it work?

Thanks :)

By: Don

Don — Fri, 06 Apr 2007 20:36:31 +0000

If this stupid program is a virus at all, it’s a Linux virus.

So now that Linux is being ported to AppleTV, maybe Kaspersky can port his “virus” code and create the first AppleTV virus. Stop the presses, the sky is falling.

http://www.mactel-linux.org/wiki/AppleTV

By: Cam

Cam — Fri, 06 Apr 2007 16:29:52 +0000

I wonder how long it will take for George Ou to pick this up?

By: Bad Jokes Dept

Bad Jokes Dept — Fri, 06 Apr 2007 13:18:09 +0000

Dr. Evil voice:

“I suppose the infected device requires a… lipodsuction…perhaps?”

By: John Muir

John Muir — Fri, 06 Apr 2007 11:00:21 +0000

Dai Jones:

My loathing for the BBC’s dumbing down in all fields except for politics (yay) over the last 10 years knows no humble or even particularly sane bounds. :P

By: Simone Manganelli

Simone Manganelli — Fri, 06 Apr 2007 08:25:59 +0000

Err.. well.. I mean.. it looks like there’s partial support on all iPods except 2G iPod nanos and any iPod shuffle. But still, that narrows down the field even more.

By: Simone Manganelli

Simone Manganelli — Fri, 06 Apr 2007 08:15:41 +0000

I feel compelled to point out that while the virus requires you to install iPodLinux on your iPod, and in doing so negates the threat for 99.99% of iPod owners, it gets even better.

iPodLinux only runs on 1G, 2G, and 3G full-size iPods. Not 4G click-wheel iPods or 5G iPod videos. Not 1G or 2G iPod nanos. Not 1G or 2G iPod shuffles. Not even the iPod mini, which was born, went through life, and was discontinued before iPodLinux could get a chance to work on it.

So if you’ve bought your iPod in the past 2.5 years, you’re automatically exempt from this threat.

By: Dai Jones

Dai Jones — Fri, 06 Apr 2007 05:07:46 +0000

Dammit, I rushed here to leave a comment as soon as I saw the piece, but the antlered one was well before me. One question though: why do these piece of shit sites that publish meaningless arse not allow comments? Are they scared of something?

Forgive me, I’m still bitter that the BBC wouldn’t allow me to comment in response to this trivial shit…
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/6531049.stm
I mean, surely we don’t need telling that large dog breeds and small dog breeds differ genetically? How else, fairy dust?

By: Don

Don — Fri, 06 Apr 2007 01:41:05 +0000

Let’s see…

It requires manual installation and execution. It doesn’t spread unless you actually give a copy of the file to someone else.

So how the heck did Kaspersky Labs decide this was a proof of any concept at all?

Or does manually installing and executing an app now count as “infecting the platform”?

If that’s the new “IT’S A VIRUS” criterion, then wouldn’t the ‘ls’ command count as a virus?

Or maybe this killer dangerous shell script:
#!/bin/bash
echo “DANGEROUS VIRUS ALERT”; ls -laR

I think I want some of what Kaspersky’s been smokin’.

By: John Kirk

John Kirk — Fri, 06 Apr 2007 01:34:46 +0000

It only runs if you have Linux installed on your iPod (which nobody does)…

And you have to execute it manually (which nobody would)…

And it doesn’t really do anything (so nobody cares).