Malicious iPhone Virus Takes Control of Your Phone

[anamaniac]

Those who run default passwords get what they deserve. We have protection on such devices for a reason people.

 

[ano]

you know both Mac and Linux, they do not get any kind of viruses, Trojans, worms, spyware and adware and...

this is exactly the reason why a special version of Kapsersky anti-virus exists for Mac!

http://www.kaspersky.com/kaspersky-anti-virus-for-mac
"The award-winning technologies in Kaspersky Anti-Virus for Mac protect you from a wide range of IT threats:

1.Windows, Mac OS or Linux viruses, Trojans, worms, spyware and adware;
2.Malware in shared folders of virtual machine used on your Mac;"

im not sure if any of you guys know about viruses better than Kaspersky

obviously this anti-virus exists because there exists some viruses and probably kaspersky believes there will be more and more !

 

[tayb]

[citation][nom]knickle[/nom]This is really no different than people turning off UAC in Vesta or Windows 7 because they hate the warning pop-ups. When the PC finally gets infected, Microsoft is blamed.What's good for the goose is good for the gander my friends.[/citation]

Wow, what an absolutely ridiculous "comparison." You are actually trying to compare turning off UAC to someone bypassing security measures and jailbreaking their phone. lol, ah the "wisdom" of the rabid fanboy never ceases to amaze me.

It's just funny listening to you hypocrites.

 

[V8VENOM]

It used to be pretty amuzing reading the babbling teens and self proclaimed experts (windows fanboys) that have never owned what they claim to be an expert it, but it's just getting old now. SSDD.

Come on Tom's, please start some real reporting. Dump the Windows fanboy fodder articles and focus in on technology on all platforms. Do you really NEED the hit count these lame articles encourage?

 

[Guest]

1. You Jailbreak iPhone
2. You install OpenSSH via Cyntia Appstore
3. You don't change the default ssh password

This is like install windows with admin account and pass 'admin', and the windows anti-apple fan boys come screaming that iPhone and Mac finally have virus, ROTFL! It is a security breach yes, but from the OpenSSH installer!!!

 

[Guest]

From these comments, we see that those boys don't even have a clue about iPhone or Mac, I bet it is envy, come to the dark side my friends

 

[Guest]

Apple has just been left alone, we only hate microsuck.
But there are clowns that will soon start to attack apple.
Its not us its them. 99% of all hackers only hit microsuck.

 

[jessedegenerate]

[citation][nom]amabhy[/nom]All i gotta say is,GG apple users! Screwed if you jailbreak, sucks if you dont![/citation]

Or you can just be a pro, and if your going to enable SSH like you would on any UNIX, change the default password.

This doesn't make the device any better or worse, your turning on a service, with a default password, so your the idiot.

If any of you people think this is nearly as bad as actual phishing banking apps that made it into android market place thanks to there "all are welcome" motto, then i have nothing to say to you

lay in your bed

 

[Guest]

Iphones are suseptible to malware and viruses. Alot more if you are jailbroken. openssh from cydia is probally the most possible cause for this, and i can bet you that the only phones that got this were jailbroken with openssh installed. you can still have a jailbroken phone and be at ease if you change your default password from alpine to something else. you can do this by installing mibile terminal or ssh,ing into you phone and running passwd. it is pretty self explanitory from there out (default password is alpine)