Viruse on iPods
Now even portable music players may get viruses as well. According to the Kaspersky Lab website, they have discovered a virus, named Podloso which behaves in this manner:
If the virus is installed on the iPod by the user, the virus then installs itself to the folder which contains program demo versions. Podloso cannot be launched automatically without user involvement.
Once launched, the virus scans the device’s hard disk and infects all executable .elf format files. Any attempt to launch these files will cause the virus to display a message on the screen which says “You are infected with Oslo the first iPodLinux Virus”.
Fortunately, this is only a “proof of concept” virus, which is created for the sole purpose of proving that it is possible to infect a specific platform, and it does not spread on its own; the user has to install Linux on the iPod and save the virus to the iPod for the device to become infected.