The first Trojan for the iPhones was detected!!!

Jan 14, 2008 | Tag: Mobile news

The security investigators from the company F-Secure announced about the appearance of the first Trojan created for the Apple iPhone.

The information about the virus first appeared on January 5 2008 on the forum ModMyiFone.com which was created for the iPhone users.

According to the forum announcement the harm of the detected virus is not that serious – after getting into the system the program called iPhone firmaware 1.1.3 prep brings on the display the word Shoes. But if the user attempts to delete the virus from the system, the code deletes the files from the basic directory /bin, which is absolutely necessary for the functioning of the device.

The utilites used for the functioning of the iPhone are stored in this folder. Until now it is not exactly clear what files are deleted for the harmful program. According to The Register the Trojan copies the code of the protocol OpenSSH and deletes the utilite files Ericas Utilites.

Also the specialists IB remarked that there exists the danger of installing of additional programs and the users who became the victims of this Trojan are recommended to delete the virus and reinstall the deleted programs on iPhone.

”This is the first Trojan for the iPhone. And although it cannot be said that it brings real damage we can state nevertheless that this is just the beginning”, comments on the situation Symantec.

Comments:

October 22nd, 2009 03:50 Bruno said:

October 14th, 2008 08:23 Mr. Mobile said:

I am really interested in your opinion what we can expect in the near future in relation to mobile phone viruses. I have just written a similar blog post and would invite you give me your thoughts.

http://www.e-23.net/blog/apple-iphone/iphone-virus/

Cheers

MR. Mobile

March 3rd, 2008 01:26 elmerxxx said:

i would like you to download that trojan in my cel phone how it works.cause i want to know how a virus is real in a cell phone here is my number 09262532585.thanks so much am waiting your virus

January 14th, 2008 10:15 Arny said:

is this mean that my iphone in danger?

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