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Owners of Ipods are possibly quaking in their boots when it was discovered that their was an IPOD virus floating around on the internet. Some of the symptoms showed on ipods infected by this virus were loss of control of a number of functions like the play and turn off commands. However, the ipod can also be spread the virus as the user connects it to other machines to synchronize and download or exchange more files.

The virus is a major concern to apple, which has laid the blame directly at their competitor Microsoft. A claim o of industrial espionage has been made against Microsoft by Apple. The RavMonE.exe virus is rated a low risk by anti-virus companies but the virus is causing several headaches.
Apple discovered the RavMonE.exe virus on video iPods as they were being dispatched from one of its contract manufacturers. It is believed it effects units retailed purchased after Sept. 12, 2006. Apples says that iPod nanos, shuffles and Mac OS X operating system are unaffected.
The virus propagates using mass storage devices connected to Windows machines, such as external hard drives, digital cameras, removable media and USB flash drives. The good news Is that most antivirus programs will detect it easily