iPhone virus on the loose

[Tomo3000]

New iPhone virus is infecting jailbroken devices

iPhone virus on the loose

 

[burn]

Hmmm, why do these things make the news. It's like saying that my pirated copy of Windows has a worm. Surprising? Not really

Is this the same as the Aussie one where the so called virus merely uses SSH's (used to jailbreak the phone) default password to access the phone? All the user has to do is change the default password which the virus happened to do itself anyway More of a SSH issue than iPhone

 

[Rouxenator]

Apples don't get viruses, they just go rotten.

 

[The_Unbeliever]

Hmmm, why do these things make the news. It's like saying that my pirated copy of Windows has a worm. Surprising? Not really

Is this the same as the Aussie one where the so called virus merely uses SSH's (used to jailbreak the phone) default password to access the phone? All the user has to do is change the default password which the virus happened to do itself anyway More of a SSH issue than iPhone

The Aussie one (in which the jailbroken iPhone got rickrolled) merely set the stage for more malicious variants to appear.

Best practice is to change the SSH password as soon as the jailbreak is done, but very few people bother to do so. And, no, it's not an SSH issue, it's an user issue.

SSH is performing well, but in this case it is the user who failed to ensure that the password was changed (or SSH disabled).

 

[Mars]

rickrolling is the devvill.

anyway...ahem... so how do you change the ssh password again....

 

[Tjoker]

points at iPhone users and laughs......mwahahhaahhhahaha(evil laugh)

 

[Rouxenator]

points at iPhone users and laughs......mwahahhaahhhahaha(evil laugh)

Actually that is not a bad thing. Buying a phone and then having to butcher the firmware just to make it usable is a just plain dumb.

They deserve this.

 

[Wag]

..Apple...virus!!!!, no that is not possible, read the forums and ask the fanboys, they were preaching it for years now. Ignore this article, cannot be true.

 

[bwana]

Can hardly blame Apple for this one - if you don't want to risk a virus then don't jailbreak your phone.

 

[Rouxenator]

If they made a phone that did not need to be jailbroken, then people would not jailbreak the phone.

This is their fault.