An iPod arrives, with a virus


	An iPod arrives, with a virus

axgrndr

5-1-2008 2:57 AM

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iPods with viruses, is nothing sacred??

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Last week, I got a sales pitch e-mail from Buy.com touting a recertified 4GB iPod Nano for $99. I lost my iPod Touch last December and one of my older iPods had just given up the ghost, so I decided to go for it.
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The iPod came in just a couple of days--but as soon as I unwrapped it and connected it to my Mac at home I got an ominous alert from my usually quiet antivirus software. The iPod, it informed me, contained <A href="http://www.trendmicro.com/vinfo/virusencyclo/default5.asp?VName=WORM_RJUMP.D" class="external-link">some virus known as AdobeR.exe.</A>
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As I dug into the problem, I learned something I probably should have realized before I ordered. The "recertified" iPod wasn't recertified by Apple, but instead  <A href="http://www.buy.com/retail/reconditioned.htm" class="external-link">through some third party</A>.
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Apple sells its own Apple-certified refurbished products via its Web site, with said devices also coming with a one-year warranty. A 4GB from Apple's site would have set me back $129 and come with a $15 iTunes card, while a new model would have cost $149. (So yes, perhaps the lesson is simply that Ina should be less of a skinflint.)
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