Does it Cost Extra for the iPod Without Malware?

Whether it is iPods being shipped with malware, digital picture frames, navigation systems, or hard drives, the number of incidents of electronic equipment being shipped from the manufacturer with malware is disturbing!

How does this happen?  This is typically a by-product of PCs that are used for things that are outside their intended business purpose.  For example, if a computer's primary business function is to load software onto a digital picture frame or to test the ability of a computer to connect to and transfer files to the frame, then those should be the only parameters by which that machine is used.  It should not be used to plug in external USB drives, download videos and music off of the internet, or to surf porn sites.  Any of these activities are vectors of unnecessary risk and could end up infecting the PC with malware which will subsequently get passed onto other devices.

As the line between what is known as a PC and what actually runs the same type of software as your PC continues to blur you can expect to see more of these types of incidents occurring.  This is unfortunate because as we have become more dependent on technology in our every day lives and as the devices that we used have become more advanced, our level of confidence in those devices to function in a safe, secure, stable manner has declined significantly.  These sorts of compromises represent one of the biggest new threats to corporate networks and will be another one of the avenues used more prevalently by cyber criminals to steal sensitive, confidential, and personal information as malware continues its evolutionary process.