How can I get anti-virus and firewall for iPad?
Macbook, Mac OS X (10.0.x)
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Macbook, Mac OS X (10.0.x)
RodMark wrote:
It seems there are still people who believe that Macs don't get viruses and the iPad is a closed system.
The Intego virus barrier system is NOT for jail broken Ipads. I have Intego's Virusbarrier anti virus installed on all our Apple computers and laptops. There's nothing jailbroken about my Ipad as far as I'm aware.
I have never assume that the Apple computers cannot be hacked or get a virus. A friend of ours found this out the hard way when her Ipod Touch got malware on it from being logged onto a free wifi system. It happens. My Ipad and Iphone are regularly scanned with Intego's Virusbarrier scan system to prevent any viruses from infecting the computers.
If you are concerned about viruses, consider using Intego's products. They are very good and easy to use.
For the record, I don't work for Intego.
There is no effective antivirus that can run on iOS devices, since the same sandbox structure of iOS that makes it very difficult to get malware onto an iOS device prevents any antivirus application from working effectively and hence no such antivirus applications exist. VirusBarrier, which runs on a computer, not an iOS device, can only scan for possible viruses that would be attached to a document, and I've not seen any such virus capable of attaching to any document type that could be used on an iOS device. Hence the usefulness of such a scanning feature is highly doubtful and hence is more of a marketing come-on than a truly useful feature.
A friend of ours found this out the hard way when her Ipod Touch got malware on it from being logged onto a free wifi system.
That is not possible. There have been no viruses identified or even proposed in more than a vague theoritical way that could infect a non-jailbroken iOS device and none could be transferred simply by logging onto a WiFi access point. You and/or your friend are mistaken or misinformed.
You replied in a thread that has been inactive for almost three years, by the way.
Regards.
How can I get anti-virus and firewall for iPad?