Hello,
A friend called me yesterday to tell me he has a friend whose iPad 3 has a virus. I immediately assumed/accused him of having some other tablet. He said, no, it is an iPad 3 that he took to the Apple store geniuses where it also freaked out and they are looking into it. By freaking out, it appears that it is being controlled remotely.
He claims that he first noticed it because it was off in another room and came on by itself and started connecting to web sites. It runs through passwords, tries to sign up for conferences, hits some porn sites, etc...
I still was not convinced but he sent me an iPhone video of an iPad seeming to operate by itself. The video was taken when it started this behavior at the Apple store that he took it to.
It is not April 1. I don't see how it could be a virus. I assume it was not jailbroken or the geniuses would have had him take that off immediately. Yet, the only thing that makes sense to me is that some kind of remote desktop has been installed on his iPad by someone else.
All my searching says that there is no such thing as an iPad virus. Is it possible to remotely control an iPad over a wifi network surreptitiously? He is suspicious of a neighbor but I still maintain my skepticism.
A friend called me yesterday to tell me he has a friend whose iPad 3 has a virus. I immediately assumed/accused him of having some other tablet. He said, no, it is an iPad 3 that he took to the Apple store geniuses where it also freaked out and they are looking into it. By freaking out, it appears that it is being controlled remotely.
He claims that he first noticed it because it was off in another room and came on by itself and started connecting to web sites. It runs through passwords, tries to sign up for conferences, hits some porn sites, etc...
I still was not convinced but he sent me an iPhone video of an iPad seeming to operate by itself. The video was taken when it started this behavior at the Apple store that he took it to.
It is not April 1. I don't see how it could be a virus. I assume it was not jailbroken or the geniuses would have had him take that off immediately. Yet, the only thing that makes sense to me is that some kind of remote desktop has been installed on his iPad by someone else.
All my searching says that there is no such thing as an iPad virus. Is it possible to remotely control an iPad over a wifi network surreptitiously? He is suspicious of a neighbor but I still maintain my skepticism.