iPhone Virus

I guess one of my favorite veteran actors would love this. A worm virus has hit iPhone users in Australia. The virus replaces the smartphone's default wallpaper with a photo of British singer Rick Astley who was famous during the 1980s.


First to be identified to target Apple's iPhone, the virus effects only users who have "jailbroken" their smartphones to allow them to run unauthorized software.

Analyst has been reported that the virus spreads by searching an infected iPhone's contact list for other modified iPhones and whose users have installed the Unix utility SSH or secure shell without changing the default root password. Apparently, this incident might have been like Rorschach test for people who have heard of it. Ultra-loyalist fanboys would readily use the virus infestation as warning against jailbreaking the iPhone. It does not pay to lose full communion with Rome, er, Apple. Consumers, who have been waiting for quite sometime now for a promised iPhone killer, would view the incident as signs of weakness in the growing Apple homogeny in the smartphone scene. The iPhone is not invincible, and if it could fall prey to a virus, it could be vulnerable to a well designed and capable smartphone in the future.