<HTML><BODY style="word-wrap: break-word; -khtml-nbsp-mode: space; -khtml-line-break: after-white-space; "><DIV><DIV>On 1 Sep, 2007, at 18:04, Richard Klein wrote:</DIV><BR class="Apple-interchange-newline"><BLOCKQUOTE type="cite"><P style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px"><FONT face="Palatino" size="4" style="font: 14.0px Palatino"><SPAN class="Apple-converted-space"> </SPAN>A PC virus could be stored on an iPod just like any other file, but it can't be run on an</FONT></P> <P style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px"><FONT face="Palatino" size="4" style="font: 14.0px Palatino">iPod, so what's the big deal?<SPAN class="Apple-converted-space"> </SPAN>And a PC virus can be stored on an iPod no matter what<BR></FONT></P></BLOCKQUOTE><BLOCKQUOTE type="cite"><P style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px"><FONT face="Palatino" size="4" style="font: 14.0px Palatino">filesystem you format the iPod with; it's just another file, after all.</FONT></P> </BLOCKQUOTE></DIV><BR><DIV>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.</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>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?</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>Go ahead and reformat YOUR iPod, I'm keeping MINE away from all PCs.</DIV></BODY></HTML>