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could you get a virus on your iphone?
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Something in your backup must be corrupt. Restore your iPhone and set it up as new. Should fix the problem.
the thing is when my computer goes and updates any apple product my computer gives me an error message
Just because a phone or even a computer is running slow doesn't means it has a virus. There are a lot of factors contributing to the slowness of your iPhone.
You can try restoring your iPhone, that can help.
i dont know if its my computer or my itunes but the message says "the iphone cannot be restored at this time because the iphone software update server could not be contacted or is temporarily unavailable" called apple many times no one really helped
actually i think it is my computer because i tried it on a different one and it work if any one know how to fix this please let me know or lead me to a right post
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Seriously?
Have you even gone back to the Symantec thread and read the official article? Stop being so hung up on Android having security flaws- iOS has just as many.
Thus, in the same way, I could say: "It's simple. Do you have a phone? If so, yes you probably have a virus."
Sound retarded to you? Yeah thought so too.
Seriously?
Symantec is the biggest POS on earth, it cant even find viruses so why would I listen to them as far as whats vulnerable? Its all Fluff to get people to buy a product there gonna release?? lol
Now on topic: If your running iOS 4+ I have noticed that some apps either have a memory leak or something and they just hog resources. What i would try doing is closing all the apps running (double tap home key, hold a app till the shake then click the minus symbol) then power off and power on the phone. Ive had a lot of people come to me with the email app acting up to the point where it wont receive any exchange emails, ill do that process and viola it works fine and phone is responsive again.
I don't think Symantec and their Norton Anti-Virus product are very good either, but 'radiogoober' was referring to another thread in which he crapped on Android because the OP of that thread said that 'iOS has no security flaws while Android has more holes than Swiss cheese', while linking to an article by AppleInsider talking about the Symantec report.
Even the original article said that iOS has as many security flaws as Android. That crap-ass blog flung the report into a dishwasher and came up with 'iOS is incredibly secure and Android sucks' as they are prone to do.
I merely wanted to tell him to draw his own conclusions by reading the original report, rather than a crappy blog post. Is that a problem for you?
So my response to you is:
Seriously?
How about reading up on the post I was talking about before replying?
My reply was nothing against you just stating that anything symantec says should just be ignored. How about you settle down? Anyways, with enough time money and effort anything and everything has a way to be compromised
its a sony vaio it is only about 2 years old i have tried reinstaling but nothing worked
That will do it. You haven't got a virus dude, the 3G just can't handle the newer firmware. Time to upgrade!
