Watch out, now comes the iPhone Virus Attack

Last weekend, the first virus targeting the iPhone, Apple made cell phone began to emerge. The first user group is to attack the iPhone user in Australia.

The virus is called by the name 'Ikee' is changing the phone background image into the image Rick Astley, a singer 1980s. After changing the image, the virus then find another iPhone to spread through the network.

Rick Astley on the photo also appears the message: "ikee is never going to give you up".

Ikee worm that spreads using SSH, which is available for pre-installed on the iPhone. Even so, many users had to enable SSH to facilitate them to access the phone from the computer. In addition, although the iPhone be sold with SSH feature is turned off, Apple mengonfigurasikan SSH with the same root password for the iPhone. If you turn on the SSH without change, it is a very dangerous step.

Initial suspicion, Ikee virus maker is a 21-year-old boy from Wollongong, New South Wales. Recently he mentioned in Twitternya that he was a little worried about the legal implications that will he face.

"If he makes and the spread of the virus in the network, he needs to worry," said Paul Ducklin, Head of Technology, Sophos Asia Pacific, the information VIVAnews quotation, November 9, 2009. "The reason is, through other people's computers is a violation, even though they had installed a password," he said.

Fortunately, unlike the modern umumya malware, viruses Ikee no damage and is not created as a vehicle for Cybercrime. Even apparently, Ducklin said, after infecting the iPhone, the deadly virus that SSH features while protecting the iPhone from an attack by a similar method.

Currently, new attacks appear officially recorded in Australia. Even so, there have been unofficial reports that Ikee had also started to attack the iPhone users in Thailand and Japan.