Kaspersky laboratory discovers the first virus for iPod

Kaspersky laboratory, a prominent developer of the safe content management solutions, has the first virus discovered, which is sketched, in order to stick on iPod mobile central players. The virus, which was called Podloso, is a proof of the concept program, which does not raise a material threat.
The virus is a document, to be discharged can and run on one iPod. It should be stressed that, thus the virus to work, Linux on iPod be attached must. If the virus is attached on iPod by the user, the virus attaches itself then to the booklet, which contains program demo versions.
Podloso cannot be discharged without user relationship automatically. As soon as discharged, the virus makes a blueprint the non removable disk of the device and sticks on all enforceable .elf format documents. Each possible attempt to discharge these documents arranges the virus to indicate an announcement on the screen which says that „you are stuck on with Oslo the first iPodLinux virus “.
Podloso is a typical proof of the concept virus, which is manufactured, in order to show that it is possible to stick on a specific platform. It does not have a bad-willing pay load and is not capable of spreading independently: a user must store the virus to iPod, so that the device is stuck on.