Is the iPhone 3G vulnerable to viruses once jailbroken?

[Acronym]

Macs have viruses too.

+1

haha macs

but on a serious note anything can get a virus if the time is spent to figure out how. even if it did you could always DFU Restore unless the virus was targeted to disabling and permanently shutting the iphone down.

just an example of what someone could do to be a a complete ass to iphone users

 

[KingHuds]

Cling to your narrow definitions to keep up the facade of your perfect Macworld. Have fun with that.

Im sure the OP intended to ask if the phone was vulnerable to malware which OS X certainly is.

 

[ppc750fx]

Cling to your narrow definitions to keep up the facade of your perfect Macworld. Have fun with that.

It's not an artificially-narrow definition. The mode of infection is fundamentally different. Most users don't really grok the difference, I'll give you, but there is a fundamental difference between the two nonetheless. It's not just a Mac thing too -- the *nix world has been differentiating between rootkits and viruses for quite some time; the former is far more common than the latter. Or maybe they're just clinging to their narrow definitions to keep up the facade of their perfect *nixworld?

Im sure the OP intended to ask if the phone was vulnerable to malware which OS X certainly is.

Any computer capable of running programs from a user-defined storage medium is vulnerable to malware.

 

[Hawkeye411]

OS X Viruses

OSX/Leap-A
OSX/Oompa-A
Virus.OSX.Macarena

To name a few 😱

 

[Tokiopop]

Will SOMEONE just tell us whether turning off SSH will prevent ANYONE from SSHing into our phones? I'm pretty sure it will, but you never know nowadays

 

[Acronym]

Will SOMEONE just tell us whether turning off SSH will prevent ANYONE from SSHing into our phones? I'm pretty sure it will, but you never know nowadays

ssh on or not if they dont know your iPhones ip address they cant ssh into your iPhone

 

[Tokiopop]

Or if you're on the same wireless network. 😉

 

[Acronym]

Or if you're on the same wireless network. 😉

if your on the same network im sure you could track down the prick trying to ssh your iphone but, being as he/she would somehow have to pick up your phone navigate to the wfif settings and copy the ip down it would seem unlikey.

 

[Tokiopop]

I'll keep SSH off when not in use, just to be on the safe side. But I must say, I am being more aware oh what I'm getting from Cydia now 🙂

 

[ppc750fx]

ssh on or not if they dont know your iPhones ip address they cant ssh into your iPhone

Ah yes... the good 'ol security through obscurity tactic. 😀

Of course if you've got mDNSResponder, your iPhone will happily advertise that it supports SSH to anyone who can receive its anycast notifications...