{"id":1762,"date":"2006-10-18T23:14:33","date_gmt":"2006-10-18T17:44:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.quickonlinetips.com\/archives\/2006\/10\/apple-ships-video-ipods-with-windows-ravmoneexe-virus\/"},"modified":"2020-05-22T16:47:42","modified_gmt":"2020-05-22T11:17:42","slug":"apple-ships-video-ipods-with-windows-ravmoneexe-virus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.quickonlinetips.com\/archives\/2006\/10\/apple-ships-video-ipods-with-windows-ravmoneexe-virus\/","title":{"rendered":"Apple Ships Video iPods with Windows RavMonE.exe Virus"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Apple has shipped a few video ipods with a preloaded windows virus. Apple confirms this in an official release on their site which says that <strong>less than 1%<\/strong> of the Video iPods available for purchase <strong>after September 12, 2006<\/strong>, left the contract manufacturer carrying the <strong>Windows RavMonE.exe virus<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>This virus infects only Windows based computers, and updated anti-virus software should detect and remove it. The iPod nano, iPod shuffle and Mac OS X are not affected, and all Video iPods now shipping are virus free. RavMonE.exe virus <strong>propagates via mass storage devices<\/strong>, so run a antivirus scan on any external hard drives, digital cameras with removable media, or USB flash drives you connected recently to an infected PC.<\/p>\n<p>If you cannot buy the full paid version of Symantec Norton Antivirus or McAfee, download these <a href=\"https:\/\/www.quickonlinetips.com\/archives\/2006\/02\/download-best-free-antivirus-softwares\/\">best free antivirus softwares<\/a> and scan for the virus.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Apple has shipped a few video ipods with a preloaded windows virus. Apple confirms this in an official release on&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_kad_post_transparent":"","_kad_post_title":"","_kad_post_layout":"","_kad_post_sidebar_id":"","_kad_post_content_style":"","_kad_post_vertical_padding":"","_kad_post_feature":"","_kad_post_feature_position":"","_kad_post_header":false,"_kad_post_footer":false,"_kad_post_classname":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[16,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1762","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-apple","category-security"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.quickonlinetips.com\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1762","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.quickonlinetips.com\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.quickonlinetips.com\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.quickonlinetips.com\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.quickonlinetips.com\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1762"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.quickonlinetips.com\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1762\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.quickonlinetips.com\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1762"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.quickonlinetips.com\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1762"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.quickonlinetips.com\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1762"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}