[G4] Firewire issue

[Ronald Steinke]

On 1 Sep, 2007, at 18:04, Richard Klein wrote:

>  A PC virus could be stored on an iPod just like any other file,  
> but it can't be run on an
> iPod, so what's the big deal?  And a PC virus can be stored on an  
> iPod no matter what
> filesystem you format the iPod with; it's just another file, after  
> all.

The main issue there is that you CAN infect an iPod with a PC virus  
and it CAN be passed to another computer from the iPod.

Yes, a virus can be stored on an iPod no matter what format it has,  
but it won't transfer to the iPod if the iPod can't be recognized by  
a PC (which is where the virus would come from in the first place)  
because the iPod is formatted as a Mac iPod. The only way a PC virus  
can be installed on a Mac formatted iPod that I can think of is if  
the virus is already on the Mac computer and is then transferred to  
the iPod by the user manually unless the virus is in a music file  
that is automatically loaded on the iPod when it is connected to the  
Mac, and I don't think that that is very likely. When did you see a  
music file that was infected with a virus?

Go ahead and reformat YOUR iPod, I'm keeping MINE away from all PCs.
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