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FofaF Freaked out iPad, believes it is a virus

Looks to me like a faulty touch sensor. It's just repeatedly reporting touches on various parts of the screen.
 
The (unsatisfying) end.

Unsatisfying because apparently they did not tell him what was happening. In any event, here is what I was sent today by my friend when I pressed him for information, "His first trip to Apple they wiped it off. He then reloaded his software he had on it and it started happening again. He returned to the Apple store and then they took it and gave him a new one. I'm wondering if they will ever tell him what the problem was."

Faulty digitizer makes sense to me. But the haunted iPad would make for a better story.

So, for those of us who get the refurbs, its coming.
 
Tomacorno said:
Unsatisfying because apparently they did not tell him what was happening. In any event, here is what I was sent today by my friend when I pressed him for information, "His first trip to Apple they wiped it off. He then reloaded his software he had on it and it started happening again. He returned to the Apple store and then they took it and gave him a new one. I'm wondering if they will ever tell him what the problem was."

Faulty digitizer makes sense to me. But the haunted iPad would make for a better story.

So, for those of us who get the refurbs, its coming.
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Refurbs have to be made "like new," so it's unlikely someone else would have the same problems.
 
I had similar mysterious things happen on my iPad 1g.
Apps would open up and close, keypad would appear and typing would commence and other weird things just as if there was a phantom hand controlling it.
Apple ended up replacing it and I sent the original back to them.
I didn't find out what was wrong with it but I had my suspicions that it could have been caused by sand getting inside the iPad through the charging port.
We live right on the beach and, although I never took the iPad on the beach, with kids and dogs coming up from the beach every day there's always sand drifting around the house no matter how you try to clean it.
The problem also seemed worse when a case was on it. I suppose a case would possibly put more pressure on certain points thus activating the mysterious gestures.
I was very glad when Apple replaced it although it was Extremely funny to see, especially games playing away by themselves.
 
I saw this EXACT same problem on a swedish appleforum but the problem was on an iPhone.

Here's the link to the video:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NH4mO6Kf-zc&feature=youtube_gdata_player
 
thewitt said:
Is there even a VNC server on Cydia ?

I thought logmein recover was the only remote control option.

Color me skeptical as well...
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What is logmein recover? The only thing close to this is logmein rescue but that doesn't allow a person to control an ios device just push out provisioning profiles to it.

I realize that everyone in this thread might be interested in a potential virus but I am more interested in a way to remotely control an ios device to do tech support.
 
BlendedFrog said:
What is logmein recover? The only thing close to this is logmein rescue but that doesn't allow a person to control an ios device just push out provisioning profiles to it.

I realize that everyone in this thread might be interested in a potential virus but I am more interested in a way to remotely control an ios device to do tech support.
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as I mentioned in my earlier post, there IS a VNC server app that allows control of an iOS device from a Mac or PC called veency on Cydia (in fact, veency was written by same guy as cydia).
 
psonice said:
In the video the "passwords" it's "typing" consist of long sequences of the letters Y and G.. which are right next to each other on the keyboard (doesn't look like it with the split keyboard, but it still works if you tap where the G would be on the right side).

Add to that the fact that nobody uses long random sequences of the letters Y and G in their passwords, any hacker (even a total idiot script kiddie) knows that and would use a password dictionary, and you have yourself a pretty clear dodgy digitiser.

Sometimes you can fix something like this by simply cleaning the screen. You get a tiny spec of "the wrong kind of dust" on the screen and suddenly it's registering taps where they don't exist. I quite often have to give my iPhone screen a quick wipe when somebody calls me and it won't swipe to answer.
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All of this. That is clearly not being typed by a human or anything programmed by a human. it's stuck on a few keys.
 
b.c. said:
as I mentioned in my earlier post, there IS a VNC server app that allows control of an iOS device from a Mac or PC called veency on Cydia (in fact, veency was written by same guy as cydia).
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How does that work? Obviously my iPad would need to be JB in order to install it but could I use it to control non-jb ios devices?
 
I remember this thread and after reading about the latest OS update I thought I would post this.

"""
Apple has shipped a high-priority iOS update to fix multiple security holes affecting the browser used on iPhones, iPads and iPod Touch devices.

The iOS 5.1.1 update fixes four separate vulnerabilities, including one that could be used to take complete control of an affected device.

Here’s the skinny of this batch of updates:

A URL spoofing issue existed in Safari. This could be*used in a malicious web site to direct the user to a spoofed site*that visually appeared to be a legitimate domain. This issue is*addressed through improved URL handling. This issue does not affect*OS X systems.

Multiple security holes in the open-source WebKit rendering engine. *These could lead to cross-site scripting attacks from maliciously crafted web sites. These vulnerabilities were used during Google’s Pwnium contest at this year’s CanSecWest conference.

A memory corruption issue in WebKit.*Visiting a maliciously crafted website may lead to an*unexpected application termination or arbitrary code execution. *This issue was discovered and reported by Google’s security team.'"""

The reports of a haunted iPad may not have been as far off as most thought.

http://www.zdnet.com/blog/security/...-in-ios-devices/11983?tag=mantle_skin;content
 
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