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| Vol. 4, Issue 5 May 2012 |
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Goings On |
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Technology |
First iPhone virus hits the market
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Published :1 September 2010 |
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| They just won’t let Steve Jobs be. First the threat by the porn industry to use face-to-face video calls to enable screen-to-screen sex. (Jobs has tried to keep Apple’s image squeaky clean, but he knows that it’s a losing game against the successors of Larry Flynt.) Now, there is word from security experts—those who haven’t spent their little time on earth jailbreaking the phone—that the first self-replicating iPhone virus has begun doing the rounds. This virus is active across all generations of iPhones, and also affects nonjailbroken pieces. This means that more than 25 million iPhone users are vulnerable. The virus, called the ‘iLax virus,’ apparently causes all apps and webpage links to disappear down a digital black hole, leaving the user holding a piece of plastic junk.
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