Ipod Windows Worm

What’s with all those Mac being virus-free advertising campaign (MOV) that Apple’s holding and they’re shipping Ipods with Windows virus?

Troj/Bdoor-DIJ is a backdoor Trojan for the Windows platform. The Trojan contacts several remote sites to report the infection and availability of the backdoor.

- from Secunia

Knowing of this news got me really upset over Apple’s ignorance. This is definitely not a bug in a software. It’s not a hole in the code that results in such vulnerability. A bug doesn’t phone home. This is deliberately planted by some personnel along the production line. How can Apple, being such a key company in technology let such thing happen and yet they repeatedly claim themselve as a hardware company.

Even though this worm isn’t really that serious and can be detected by most major anti-virus softwares, but the fact that a big hardware corporation that we all trust and that keeps boasting about the security of their products let deliberately-planted virus being shipped with their products is simply unacceptable to me.

And to make things worse, they still dare to blame others:

Apple is “upset at Windows for not being more hardy against such viruses,” but they’re “even more upset with ourselves for not catching it.”

- from Engadget

Any script kiddie can plant virus or do any damange to any systems in the world when it has physical root access to the system.

Although I do not own an Ipod, but as a security conscious person, I’m really upset over such incident.

Related: Apple’s Own Ipod Windows Virus Page