Topic: iPod and virus scanning? (Page 1 of 1) |
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Maniac (V) Inmate From: there...no..there..... |
posted 02-26-2009 03:03
Greetings. I have an iPod and I listen to it in the car so it goes to work with me. The other day I came hope and plugged it up to my home computer and it said there was an "autorun" file, do I want to run it. I clicked "Cancel" and had a look. |
Maniac (V) Inmate From: zero divided. |
posted 02-26-2009 12:02
I shouldn't think there's much risk involved. The files and their formats on the iPod will generally be alien to your antivirus software (I'm presuming MS/Win based), so it should only be familiar malware that gets blitzed. Heuristics might provide a false positive somewhere, but any action could be refused at your discretion, I'm sure. |
Maniac (V) Inmate From: there...no..there..... |
posted 02-26-2009 14:05
White Hawk, my work computer is Windows based yes. At home I run Linux so I am not too worried there. |
Maniac (V) Inmate From: zero divided. |
posted 02-26-2009 14:18
Pardon me for not asking already, but which iPod do you have? |
Maniac (V) Inmate From: there...no..there..... |
posted 02-26-2009 16:59
I apologize for not telling It's the iPod video Gen 5 30 gig. |
Maniac (V) Inmate From: zero divided. |
posted 02-27-2009 16:32
Yup - you can be as careful as you like, but there are always ways... |
Paranoid (IV) Inmate From: cell 3736 |
posted 02-27-2009 18:23
Just a week ago a co-worker of mine also discovered a Trojan from a brand new digital picture frame that he bought. Not Samsung tho. Pretty weird stuff. |
Maniac (V) Mad Scientist with Finglongers From: Germany |
posted 02-27-2009 20:36
pre pwned by factory... |
Maniac (V) Inmate From: there...no..there..... |
posted 02-27-2009 21:01
I am thankful every day that I go home that I run Linux Until the day that it become more popular as a desktop and people start writing viri for it. |