discovered 1st Virus for iPod

In the week in that Apple announced to have sold 100 million tocadores digital iPod, a company of safety identified the first virus that has as objective that portable one. In agreement with the Russian company Kaspersky Lab, the called curse Podloso attacks only the tocadores with versions of the operating system Linux—an alternative used for those that want enlarge the functions of the apparel.

That specification turns the less threatening curse, since a restricted number of users opts to use Linux in their tocadores, but it represents an alert for the owners of that digital tocador. Besides, the code doesn’t cause any damage to the tocador or the files.

“The first virus for iPod doesn’t have any dangerous function and it doesn’t represent risk for the users, but it proves that is possible to infect the devices in the future”, affirmed an official report of safety’s company. That code type is called concept proof, servant to prove the possibility of a platform to be infected.

The iPodLinux Project is one of the alternatives for users that want to install that operating system in the tocador of Apple. In page in the internet, the organizers of the project affirm that Linux allows an infinite expansion of the portable, giving other functions besides digital tocador to that apparel.

Modus operandi
The virus doesn’t spread alone; he arrives to the iPod when the user installs in the tocador an application for Linux infected already. After having executed, the code is stored in the tocador, settling in their pastes, it explains to Kaspersky Lab. The program then escaneia the disk-rigid of the iPod and it contaminates the files with extension “.elf”. When trying to access these files, the malware presents the sentence “You plows infected with Oslo, the first iPodLinux Virus” (”você is infected by Oslo, the first virus for iPods with Linux”).