Update
This has all been checked, rechecked, and triple checked.
It appears to have been nothing more than a coincidence.
.. That tried to steal my password.. And then another coincidence that caused me to reset my iPod for the first time since Xmas.
Purely coincidentally mind.

I'm sure there's nothing wrong with Angry Birds.
I'm still not sure about Crystal, but Angry Birds is quite safe.


Original Post
Last night, I downloaded the updated edition of Angry Birds on my iPod.
Lovely game, highly recommended.

The new edition came with "Crystal". One of those Achievement/Highscore tracker things.
It asked for my email and a handy password, and both were inserted.

iPod fully chaged, I lay in bed and prepared my playtime!!

.. But something was wrong.
Something was very very very wrong.
Angry Birds was running at around 5 fps, and hopping and skipping all over the place.
Dang!
I quit Angry Birds and tried Orbital. Seemed fine.
Back to Angry Birds, same thing. Hoppy, skippy, slow..
No!
Crystal's ruined my favourite iPod game (besides Scrabble)!!

Then... Something else happened...
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Within Angry Birds, up popped a requester, asking me for my Gmail password.
"WTF!" says I, and closes the requester, and then closes Angry Birds, and then play plays Turf Wars for a bit, 'cos I was slightly annoyed by Angry Birds by that time.

All in all, checking in BatteryMeter, I was down to about 95% when going to sleep.

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This morning, 2 events occurred.

1. GMail asked me to input a new password because of "Suspicious Behaviour in my account"
and
2. My iPod's battery had drained overnight, whilst on standby, and apparently not doing anything at all, from a 95% battery charge.

Angry Birds is no longer on my iPod.