Unemployed Programmer created the first iPhone worm
You know what could happen if an uneployed developer owns an iPhone?. He might get really bored and do something crazy before he sell his iPhone.
Ashley Towns of Wollongong ( a city in the New South Wales in Southeastern Australia) an unemployed programmer created the first ever iPhone worm. It was called iKee, according to reports the work doesn’t steal information or destroy any part of your iPhone’s system. Instead it changes your iPhone’s wallpaper to a photo of Rick Ashley (famous for the song “Never gonna give you up”) before infecting other phones.
He stated that It was supposed to be a small prank and he never expect it t get as far as it did. The good thing is the iKee virus only infects jailbroken iPhones and the infection is limited to Australia at the moment. Ashley”s goal is to convince jailbreakers to change their iPhones root password, to stop real threat. People thanks him at first but few abused Mr. Towns.
Via iPodNN Via ABC news Australia
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This is really incorrect. He attempted to create the first worm. It really had no affect except show that a moron was caught, very easily.
Dr. Lewis
University of Colorado at Colorado Springs.
Computer Science: Epilepsy Prediction
http://rorylewis.com/apple/
i looks like a publicity stunt to me.. but hey it still a worm..
Actually, my students in the iPhone class told me last night that its becoming more prolific. Its benign in the sense that one can take it off really fast. But it does seem to be spreading faster than most of thought it would.
Dr. Lewis
University of Colorado at Colorado Springs.
Computer Science: Epilepsy Prediction
http://rorylewis.com/apple/