{"id":20,"date":"2006-10-17T23:57:48","date_gmt":"2006-10-17T22:57:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/?p=20"},"modified":"2006-10-17T23:57:48","modified_gmt":"2006-10-17T22:57:48","slug":"apple-ships-virus-blames-microsoft","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/20-apple-ships-virus-blames-microsoft.html","title":{"rendered":"Apple ships virus, blames Microsoft"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Apple has <a href=\"http:\/\/www.apple.com\/support\/windowsvirus\/\" target=\"_blank\">confessed on its site<\/a> to shipping some iPods compete with an unwanted guest, the Windows RavMonE.exe virus.<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s what Apple says:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>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.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Funny; though I doubt Apple is all that upset since it uses Windows viruses as a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.apple.com\/getamac\/viruses.html\">marketing pitch<\/a>\u00a0in its rather inaccurate page on the subject.<\/p>\n<p>Maybe this is what they call viral marketing \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n<p>Tags: <a href=\"http:\/\/technorati.com\/tag\/apple\" target=\"_blank\">Apple<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/technorati.com\/tag\/microsoft\" target=\"_blank\">microsoft<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/technorati.com\/tag\/security\" target=\"_blank\">security<\/a>\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/technorati.com\/tag\/ipod\" target=\"_blank\">ipod<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Apple has confessed on its site to shipping some iPods compete with an unwanted guest, the Windows RavMonE.exe virus. Here&#8217;s what Apple says: 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. Funny; though I doubt Apple &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/20-apple-ships-virus-blames-microsoft.html\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Apple ships virus, blames Microsoft<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,75],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-20","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-apple","category-security"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}