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colt45
I have the new Iphone and was wondering if it can get infected? You know how some sites infect you with viruses spyware and adware, so I was wondering if you view a page that has it can your iPhone get infected?

regards,
Dennis
axeline
My understanding of Apple's iPhone is limited, but unless your device is "jailbroken" (hacked to run third-party applications) then it should not be able to run programs except those purchased from Apple's iPhone application store.

I would suggest that you do not connect any devices or external drives to your computer until the malware is removed.

Definitely dont connect the iPhone I dont think it will be infected BUT you dont want to take a chance. If you have a serious virus back up all your important data to a cd, dvd, external hard drive, or whatever then scan all your docs to make sure they are not infected. I recommend you cleanly install your operating system, then run windows updates, load with virus protection, spyware protection, and just try to be careful on what you do online. Viruses are very hard to remove it sometimes its quicker just to re-install the operating system, this will make your computer faster and guarantee removal of the virus. Good luck
Sjoeii
For now the iPhone can't be infected. But you don't know what will happen in the near future. There is no AV available for the iPhone by the way
http://expressionengine.co
I think yes. Viruses don't pick any devices as long as it has no AV.
Sjoeii
It is not that easy. The virus must work on a MAC OS same as the fact that there aren't any malware for samsung OS as well.
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