BBC report on Virus hidden in some iPods

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The first virus to infect the Apple iPhone will greatly increase the chance of somebody talking to you about their iPhone, IT experts warned last night.

The worm, which changes the phone's wallpaper to a picture of 80s singer Rick Astley, was developed by an Australian hacker after he ran out of reasons to start conversations with his friends about his new iPhone.

Bill McKay, technology analyst at Madeley-Finnegan, said: “A phone for tw@ts has been hacked by a !!!!!! to change the wallpaper to a picture of another !!!!!! in a self-sustaining cycle of !!!!!!.

"We're tentatively calling it Pertwatual Motion."

The first case was reported in a Sydney wine bar after staff noticed the clientele being stalked by a man feverishly talking about passwords, firewalls and how it was like having your whole life in your pocket.

Within days, Australian public transport had to enforce an iPhone quarantine on all major routes after four pensioners were beaten to death by a man unable to reset his iPhone wallpaper to a picture of Scarlett Johansson eating a banana.

Apple CEO Steve Jobs said the virus only hits phones which had been 'jailbroken' to allow users to install their own software and said an application would be released to resolve the issue by exploding affected handsets into a cloud of beautifully sleek shards of molten plastic.

Jobs said: "Once again earthlings, this illustrates the monumental hubristic folly of defying my orders."
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Marty_J

asininity wrote: »

Support and documentation.

SSH already comes with documentation, which specifically recommends changing your password.

Though, I'm hearted by your faith in Apple's ability to stop people acting like idiots.

asininity

Yes but if natively supported it would be better rather than the dictatorship it is now. And official support and documentation is better than searching for it.

I wouldn't say apple stops people being stupid after all they manage to con perfectly normal people out of large amounts of their money with crap adverts and hipe.