A Virus for iPods running Linux

A virus was developed to specifically attack iPods running Linux has been discovered. When infected, it prevents the playback of music and videos on the affected players and instead shows a message alerting the user that their iPod has been infected.
The number of iPods that Linux is installed on is rather tiny, so this virus will have no "noticeable" impact.
In addition, in order to infect the iPod, it is necessary to connect to the iPod from a Windows machine.
This demonstrates that the problems is absolutely not a fault of Apple's systems, but with Windows which is used to transmit the virus and with iPodLinux which is not secure.
Il is more than likely that the next anti-virus updates will prevent its spread.