Though it’s nearly impossible for your iPod to get this “virus” as it is a proof of concept program and requires that you:

1) Installed linux on your iPod.
2) Manually place the “virus” on your iPod.
3) Manually launch the “virus”

Once launched, the virus scans the device’s hard disk and infects all executable .elf format files. Any attempt to launch these files will cause the virus to display a message on the screen which says “You are infected with Oslo the first iPodLinux Virus”.

Podloso is a typical proof of concept virus, which is created in order to demonstrate that it is possible to infect a specific platform. It does not have a malicious payload and is unable to spread on its own: a user has to save the virus to the iPod for the device to become infected.

So if you’re one of the 11 people that installed linux on your iPod don’t do steps one through three.

[Kaspersky Lab discovers the first virus for iPod]

Tags: ipod, security, virus, proof of concept