‘DUH’ The new Apple worm
The worms infecting jailbroken iPhones have evolved quickly. Earlier this month, the so-called Ikee worm merely bombarded its victims with images of an ’80s pop singer’ which is safe to say could be considered a joke. The latest worm however, dubbed “Duh,” wrangles iPhones into a malicious botnet. So far, the only iPhones that worms have managed to invade are jailbroken units that have been hacked by users to support software Apple hasn’t approved.
These BOTNETS have the ability to just lay in wait on your iPhone or iPod Touch and catch banking informaton. As mentioned above however, these worms are unable to get through ‘un’ jailbroken Apple products as of yet.
Our advice? Do not jailbreak your iPhone – I mean, their are hundreds of great Apps that are not third party aren’t there? Or even buy a HTC Android phone (pah says the Apple fans).
There are no well known viruses that attack Macs – so there is no need for an antivirus. But now there is a known virus that attacks ipods and iPhones. . I suppose the question is when will Apple actually allow anti-virus vendors to create one?
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