New iPods Shipped With Windows Virus/Trojan Too?

This report comes in hot in the heels of the reported virus-tainted McDonalds MP3 players that McDonalds Japan distributed.

An Apple Support Page says that less than 1% of iPods sold after September 12, 2006 were infected with RavMonE.exe Trojan. Apparently, the devices were infected at their manufacturer prior to delivery. That is the official statement of Apple.

A quick research on "RavMonE.exe" reveals, however, that the actual Trojan that *may* infect the users of the less than 1% of the iPods is called Troj/Bdoor-DIJ and RavMonE.exe is the file where Troj/Bdoor-DIJ attaches itself on the infected Windows system. Windows users with up-to-date anti-virus should be able to detect and delete this critter before it causes damage.

As expected this Trojan does not affect Apple/OS X users because... well.. I think I better stop here before another OS Wars starts.