iphone 3g

[mercmanuk]

just getting used to my iphone 3g great piece of kit.can anyone advise are they prone to virus's when searching the net as they dont run virus software,just a thought i had

cheers all

 

[MrT]

Shouldn't be as you can only run/install approved applications on them. Guess you might be more at risk if your phone is 'jailbroken'.

 

[Alfie]

just getting used to my iphone 3g great piece of kit.can anyone advise are they prone to virus's when searching the net as they dont run virus software,just a thought i had

cheers all

They dont run Microsoft S/W so you are okay

 

[A210AMG]

Think that's why Apples don't get virus's

They still crash though.... hehehe

 

[evdok]

I heard there's a new iphone due around April, can anyone confirm this?

 

[popuptoaster]

Macs can and do get viruses (virii?) its just that millions less units sold means its reported less and they are not targeted by so many hackers so its rarer, theres spy and adware around that'll hit them as well and as so many people assume they are safe once you decide to have a go at em its at least as easy as a windows based pc.

Phones are being targeted a lot more these days as well and as far as i'm aware theres not much you can do about it other than being carefull. I assume iphones will be the same and not attract the same attention from the hackers as nokia sell more phones in a month than apple have since launch, let alone what all the other manufacturers are shifting.

 

[Dryce]

Macs can and do get viruses (virii?) its just that millions less units sold means its reported less and they are not targeted by so many hackers so its rarer

That's not untrue.

But the fundamental problem with Windows is its lineage.

It became an easy target in the the DOS/Win3.1/Win 95/98 days and the the enhancements such as OLE/COM/ActiveX plus Office macros for cross application communication and scripting created a stable with no door that has been hard to fix.

NT has a flexible (but possibly over complex) security setup that should have sorted this from day one but was hampered by having to support the 'user experience' available in its insecure ancestors and siblings.

Add on top of that increasing features and subsystems with a lack of use of security to start with (FAT filesytem based installations) and the problem of support for backwards compatibility and you have an utter and complete nightmare. The security facilities are often stripped away by having to grant users higher access privileges than they should be allowed in order to run critical applications.

Linux and Mac OS X are not so fundamentally cursed.