viruses hit the iphone

Artificial viruses Students Hit the iPhone


Sydney - An Australian student to make a virus that claimed to be the first to attack Apple's pride cell phone, iPhone. The virus is changing wallpaper iPhone with British pop star pictures 1980s, Rick Astley that makes a lot of users confused.

Towns student named Ashley who lives near Sydney this claim named mengkreasi virus 'Ikee' is not for evil purposes. He wants to raise awareness about the security of the iPhone users, especially so lazy they can not change the password.

detikINET quoted from the AFP, Tuesday (10/11/2009), the virus''Ikee 'only attacking the iPhone or have Oprekan diutak-tweaking that can be used in many operators. The virus attacks the iPhone's default password was not changed by the user.

Towns easy claim to make the iPhone a virus attack, which also can be easily removed by deleting some files.

"The virus is not evil and are not intended to harm people," he said, "But someone with good intentions can not do anything, such as reading SMS, e-mail or see the contacts on the phone iPhonemu,"

Security experts warned that the virus has spread among existing iPhone users in Australia. The same technology feared would someday be used criminals to steal personal information users iPhone.

"We are particularly worried about the new version of this worm can steal your personal information," said Graham Cluley, a security expert from security firm Sophos.