The new virus that attacks the Safari browser of the iPhone and iPod Touch is similar to the previous virus. The virus exploits a vulnerability in Safari via a Denial of Service. When you browse to a site containing the malicious script, the virus is triggered eating up memory in your iPhone or iPod Touch and causing it to crash. There’s no word from Apple yet.
The new virus has been predicted and more vulnerabilities in the iPhone and iPod Touch are likely to be exploited once the SDK gets implemented. All new 16GB iPhones and 32GB iPod Touches are affected by the virus as well as devices with 1.0.2 up to 1.1.3 updates.
Via iphoneworld.ca
Comments (5)
Dude. Viruses need to self propagate. This isn’t a virus.
this is just a memory leak!!
its not a virus and it has to install on the iphone witch is almost impossible
unless you jailbreak it
First off, this article was written in February ‘08, and I believe the iphone didn’t come out in North America until March. Second, viruses don’t need to self propagate; in this case, the ‘virus’ is propagated via someone loading code from a certain website. Which brings me to Thirdly: it does not install on the iphone. there is something called Memory, which programs such as safari in this case load into and store data/execute commands in. The browser executes the command held in the website code, and boom, the virus is running. Thusly both above comments are completely and utterly invalid. Thank you.
- anonymous doesn’t forgive.
1st: what does it matter where they came out and when?
2nd: i agree with you
3rd: the virus cannot load up since safari was not made to execute or load files…
It uses a read only commands to load up what you see
And not run anything and even if it did a simple respring would fix the problem…
Executing any apps or any foreing 3rd party apps such as the virus… And i dont belive the virus can multiply it self with such little virtual memory…it would take up a lot…
The iphone came out in june 07 in america
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