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Old 04-28-2010
iPad infected with virus

What to say nothing is no more secure

Apple's new iPad has been taken down by malware within a few weeks of it being in the shops. It is an article of faith amongst Apple fanboys that Jobs' Mob gear is super secure and malware only exists on Windows machines.

Despite the fact that Apple gear is turned over regularly at security conferences, they have been safe because hackers seem to have ignored devices which are on less than five per cent of the world's machines. Now it seems that scammers are distributing e-mails designed to trick iPad owners into downloading software that they think is an iTunes update, but which turns out to be malware that opens a back door on the computer.

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Old 04-28-2010
Nothing is safe on a system where the only barriers to installing software are an "are you really sure" prompt. This applies to any system configured as such, UNIX, Windows, or other.
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