First iPhone Trojan horse reported

[volcomguysd]

Saw this on CNET a few minutes ago: January 8, 2008 11:02 AM PST

http://www.news.com/8301-10789_3-984...tfd.blogs.item

http://www.symantec.com/enterprise/s...licious_i.html

Didn't see it mentioned anywhere on the boards, so I thought I would throw this out there. My g/f came very close to installing this a few days ago! The site is offline now, but doesn't mean that other people still won't try to distribute it...
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Posted by Robert Vamosi

Seen more as a prank than an actual threat, a Trojan horse for the Apple iPhone, first reported on Saturday, has already come and gone. Still, users should be on the look out for a package called "iPhone firmware 1.1.3 prep," described as something you need to install before updating to the new 1.1.3 firmware. Billed as an "important system update," the code does little more than cause annoyance. According to various sources, once the Trojan is installed it simply displays the word "shoes."

However, the Trojan also overwrites several legitimate applications, including Erica's Utilities, Launcher, Doom, and OpenSSH, meaning that if you uninstall the Trojan, you will need to reinstall these applications later. This appears to be a consequence of poor programming.

The risk to iPhone users is now considered negligible since the host sites have all been taken down.

As antivirus vendor F-Secure concluded in its blog, "This time it was an 11-year-old kid playing with XML files who created the Trojan. Next time it might be someone else with more skills and with specific target."

[ballsonface12]

Don't jailbreak?

[phsycology]

http://news.zdnet.co.uk/security/0,1...9291979,00.htm

OMGOMG!!!

[tdefriez]

Originally Posted by phsycology

http://news.zdnet.co.uk/security/0,1...9291979,00.htm

OMGOMG!!!

It was not exactly a virus - you had to specifically install it using installer from a untested/uncleared source - that hardly constitues a virus in the windows sense which automatically install themselves without user input - clearly a case were the virus protection companies are scare mongering to promote future sales - bottomline if something asks you to install it and you don't know whether its safe don't install it

[phsycology]

yeh after I posted I remembered reading an article on it last week and how an 11 year old made it LOL false alarm

[x999x]

This was reported over the weekend, thought y'all got the memo already.

Do I have to start making threads here again?

[xsbx]

Man if you get an actual trojan on your iPhone you must be a moron. And people don't bother making little viruses to screw up are apps. Do something better with your life.

[Lincoln]

Originally Posted by ballsonface12

Don't jailbreak?

Word. None of this will come through the SDK.

I know that Mark (iPhonian) stopped modding for this very reason.

- John

[Ramesh]

already posted:

http://www.everythingicafe.com/forum...ker-20270.html

[Lincoln]

There's another thread on this. It was created first, search before you post.

- John