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IPhone Malware: Just How Safe Is Your Smartphone

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By Lee Hurst


Computer malware are everywhere today; not only are they costing organizations and individuals millions of pounds annually in costs in antivirus software programs and harmful software program detectors. In the United Kingdom, Internet crime and computer trojans costs the UK economy a massive 27 billion per year according the a report that was unveiled by the British government and these amounts are actually more greater than the toll of illegal drugs in the British economy in the previous 5 years.

As if it is not already getting a whole lot worse, here now arrives a new stream of destructive codes that can cripple your i Phone. Said to be produced by an unknown 21 year old computer nerd, the new worm computer virus called "ikee" is distributing in Australia and infecting many Apple iPhones with fatal accuracy in which if it's not controlled, can effect more models in the US and right here in the United Kingdom.

This malicious code which harms the Apple smart phone's wallpaper and changes it to a picture of an 1980s singer Rick Astley as a message appears in top saying, "ikee is never going to give you up". As soon as you see this in your iphone, you're in for a bit of a headache.

Eventually, only owners who may have phones that use Symbian Operating system 6, Windows Cellular OS and Android are the kinds that ought to be really worried with malware in their phones particularly if they use their mobile phones regularly for sharing data by way of Bluetooth because they have a greater chance of getting infected by mobile viruses. Possibly the moment for a proficient iPhone anti-virus to be created and launched has come; however the dilemma with this is the fact that they may have a problem to have Apple's assistance on this.

The reason is that most of these trojans that have affected the Apple iPhone were only able to enter the phone's system because of the weakness brought on by jailbraking the phone and this is obviously in opposition to Apple's policy. And so why jailbreak the smartphone in the to begin with and making it prone to get a trojan assault? Well, its the biggest issue for most iPhone customers; they want to use their preferred iPhone app and Apple doesn't support it, consequently they jail brake at their own risk. And what a risk it is!

British cell phone owners are well-known in taking care of their gadgets and mobile phones. In the United Kingdom, profits from iPhone insurance purchases is a regular and consistent business. iPhone 3g insurance and iPhone 4 insurance covers for theft, accidental damages and even for loss and fraudulent calls; very comprehensive compared a couple of years ago where most insurance providers don't cover loss like today. But we have yet to see insurance providers to guard smart phone owners from trojans and malicious codes, especially if they got it from tampering with their phone. Consequently the best advice for now - take additional care of your iPhone and avoid utilizing its Wireless bluetooth as much as possible.




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