Apple Ships New IPods With Virus And Blames Microsoft For Making A Bad Operating System!

From Apple: "We recently discovered that a small number - less than 1% - of the Video iPods available for purchase after September 12, 2006, left our contract manufacturer carrying the Windows RavMonE.exe virus. This known virus affects only Windows computers, and up to date anti-virus software which is included with most Windows computers should detect and remove it. So far we have seen less than 25 reports concerning this problem. The iPod nano, iPod shuffle and Mac OS X are not affected, and all Video iPods now shipping are virus free. As you might imagine, we are upset at Windows for not being more hardy against such viruses, and even more upset with ourselves for not catching it."

This sounds really interesting, almost purposely done. It has been known that Apple is going to start a massive marketing campaign this winter advertising mac computers to raise their holiday sales. Their main reason to switch is security vulnerabilities within Windows.

I personally hope Apple gets sued up and down over this, especially from Microsoft. Does anyone remember Sony's rootkit issue?