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Choose Best iPhone Antivirus Application To Protect Your Device

After Apple released its first iOS it was claimed to be protected from viruses. But there are a lot of complaints from users about virus on iPhone and it is true. That’s why I decided to give a list of best software and you can choose any of iPhone antivirus apps that you can download here and protect your iDevice.

Posted in: News 1.08.2012

Mac OS X Crisis Trojan Discovered

The Intego company, dealing with security Mac issues, discovered a new trojan for OS X called Crisis. At the moment the threat is a trojan with low risk, because until now there were no computers discovered infected by this trojan (so how could they find it?). It is known that Intego VirusBarrier X6 easily took care of a trojan, malware is identified as OSX/Crisis, and the backdoor component Backdoor OSX/Crisis. In addition VirusBarrier X6 blocks the connection to the IP-address, which Crisis is trying to connect.

Posted in: News 27.07.2012

Instaquotes App Store Virus Found Today

It seems that the problem with the Apple app store has not yet been completed. Today, there appeared information that Instaquote app included virus. App Store application contains malicious software for Windows. Instaquotes-Quotes Cards for Instagram contains a worm, designed for Windows operating system. That’s not the first time when malicious software is found in App Store, remember Find and Call virus?

Posted in: News 25.07.2012

Find and Call Virus App Steals Your Contacts

Find and Call virus app made a unique incident in the App Store and has become something out of the ordinary. Moreover, the author of the present iOS-virus brought to Apple store an application called Find and Call, was a Russian company (although it is not reliably established, but the program has English and Russian localizations). Looking ahead, I will note that at the moment the program is removed from the App Store, and Apple gave an official response about this, but then the fun lies in the details.

Posted in: News 10.07.2012

Clean Up Ikee.b Worm From iPhone [How To]

This article is for those folks who think (or even are sure) that their iPhone was attacked by a malicious Ikee.b worm. Here’s the full article with virus description and its working schemes overview. The virus is pretty dangerous because it can do a lot of harm to your device. Ikee.b scans for devices with open SSH ports and default root password. After doing this it writes necessary files into iOS, extracts and installs them. Therefore, your handset can be used as a part of botnet system. Fortunately, there’s a simple solution how you can delete the worm from your device once and for all.

Posted in: iPhone Hacks 19.06.2012

iPhone Viruses: Ikee.b Worm

By the time iOS 2 appeared iPhone could perform pretty amazing things. But it also turned out that the jailbreaking kills the phone’s defense pretty much. The whole security architecture including code signing and many other things become vulnerable. But you can use any antivirus app to keep your iPhone safe.Rooting also makes field suitable for attacks wider by adding software. I also adds different utilities like shell that can install things which are launched under root user. By switching code signing off you will also disable the strong form of Data Execution Prevention (DEP). Return Oriented Programming or ROP are responsible for DEP disabling on jailbroken iPhones. After DEP is disabled shellcode can be written and executed. And the last one, the jailbreak apps aren’t sandboxed.

Posted in: iPhone Hacks 19.06.2012

Things You Should Know About iPhone Virus

Today there are more and more people who say that they have iPhone virus. Most of people don’t know anything about iPhone viruses as well as they don’t know how to get rid of them. So, how serious is iPhone virus, and what you can do to protect your iPhone from infection? Here’s what we know, and the reason why you shouldn’t worry.

Posted in: iPhone Hacks 14.03.2012