thanks for the reply. also, before I log off, is there such a thing as "Restore" for the ipad mini?
miig.
I'm not sure what you meant by that, there is a thing as
Restore for all iOS devices. It's built into the OS, not the device itself.
To expand more on the viri topic, if the app uses a component such as Webkit (the browser backend that all apps have to use -in fact, it's the main reason Firefox for instance never cared to appear anymore on iOS since it cannot use it's engine, but Apple's one, making it a Safari copy&paste so to speak-), I guess there could be an exploit to make accessible content such as Contacts and Photos (for which you give permission to access now, but it's very highly you have done in an app such as Facebook), vulnerable to the attack.
I'm not sure if an app like Facebook currently allows for users to browse other websites (or for that matter, if it's a "real" app or just the mobile site embedded into an app), or if you could allow for malicious "facebook apps" to take advantage of an exploit, but in any case, apart from whatever you allowed it to access (Contacts, Photos, GPS), it cannot do any more damage, "thanks" to the sandboxing schema.
Not the same thing happens with a desktop OS (but we can make an exception for MAS apps, and their sandboxing schema, aka, ML's Gatekeeper), where most times an app has access to it all (entire filesystem).
