Is there an iPhone antivirus App?

That's the best you can do? An article from over 2 years ago about malware that only targetted jailbroken phones that haven't had their SSH password changed?

If you purposefully remove the security Apple builds in to iOS you deserve to get malware.

Try again...

Dude, if i can do a brief search and get anwsers...then thats good enough. I don't know what you want from me. Look, I work for a financial institution. We have some apple devices. and we take security very seriously...so if there is ANY chance of a threat, we take precautions. And you would want your financial institution to do the same. As a user, if you don't have any sensitive data on your phone/pad/mac...sure, i can understand your belief of not needing malware defense. But don't expect me and others to believe there is ZERO chance of infection. Because that is wrong.

I don't want anything from you. Just trying to educate you on the facts of the situation right now (not 2 years ago as your "brief search" did).

Some facts:

1) There are no viruses, trojans or malware for (non-jailbroken) iOS devices.

2) If you don't jailbreak (remove the built-in security), you have nothing to worry about currently.

3) There are no pre-emptive virus or malware protection apps for iOS.

I never said there was zero chance. But so far, in 5 years of iOS existence, there has not been a single virus infection, or malware outbreak that has affected stock iPhones. I base my decisions on the available overwhelming evidence. I also don't purposefully remove the security Apple builds in to its devices.

Would you want your financial provider who had your personal information on an Ipad or Iphone to have no malware protection based on the statements you made above?

Since there is no malware protection for iOS devices, it would be a physical and technical impossibility for my financial provider to install such software on an iPad or iPhone.

I don't make impossible demands of anyone.

http://www.intego.com/virusbarrier-ios

Again, you are wrong.

deadguyale wrote:

Would you want your financial provider who had your personal information on an Ipad or Iphone to have no malware protection based on the statements you made above?

That is the lowest risk that I would be concerned about. I would be much more concerned that my financial advisor had set up the phone with a long, secure, passcode, had set the autolock to the minimum (1 minute), had set Require Passcode to Immediately, had turned Erase Data (after 10 failed passcode attempts) on and had configured iTunes to encrypt the backup and never used public WiFi hotspots with the phone. Also configured Find my iPhone. As you are very security conscious I am certain that you have taken all of these precautions.

Lawrence..

you are absolutely 100 percent correct. Yes the malware issue is a low-risk issue. But it is still a risk that federal examiners look at. But overall I cannot argue with your post.

deadguyale wrote:

http://www.intego.com/virusbarrier-ios

Again, you are wrong.

No, you are wrong. You apparently don't read the links you post (or don't understand them). That app is a file scanner that claims to prevent passthrough of infected files from your iPhone to your computer AFTER the files somehow got onto your iPhone. It is NOT an antivirus for the phone.

LoL keep living in your dreamworld. I understand fully what I posted. Nitpick all you want. Your Mac devices can be harmed. Thats the simple truth.

But that application won't protect your iPhone. Which is worse, to have no protection, or to think you have protection when you don't?

deadguyale wrote:

Your Mac devices can be harmed. Thats the simple truth.

Huh? So now you're talking about Macs? You were previously referring to iPhones and iPads...

You are aware that iPhones and iPads are not Macs aren't you?

Alright hello well there is anti. Virus software but it's waste of time you get a hacker on a iPhone (yes off topic ) you will get a text with a square it means that hacker is getting on your iPhone all you have to do us go to airplane mode and turn on airplane mode and delete the text blocking the hacking Signel from connecting the. To be safe turn your iPhone iPod or iPad off and reboot it now for some great safety aps

My number one recommend ap is avg family safety

avg family safety

Exsample: if you type in a pornsite it will block it and say its a **** site or any kind of. Virus or sex site

Thank you for reading

Dillon

( i do not work for apple)

If I discovered my financial "provider" (whatever that is) had my personal financial information on an iPad or iPhone or on any mobile device, that would be the last financial "providing" that financial provider would do for me. Which financial "providers" do you know that have personal financial information for their clients stored or available on a device such as an iPad or iPhone?

Hi there everybody =)

I'm answering cause this treat is in some ways funny. I heard of those rumours that Apple Products are immune to Virus, Malware, Trojans and all other "Bad Software" =) There are people who really think that those devices (especially iPhone) are immune to all kind of those stuff... I don't really agree! And here are some explanations why:

- If Windows would have told you in the early 90's that they had the safest software available i fear that most of you would have believed the myth... Why? Either you wanted to believe it or the malware for that platform was not common in those days... Every platform who grows always gets vulnerable and bexcomes more interesting for hackers due to the larger potential of victims. Programmers simply aren't god's and simply do make mistakes. Everybody does! Even i do write some ;-) Today you would say it was a good joke that Windows myth =)

- Recent News show that MAC (the securest platform as some said) had one of the biggest Botnet's who was writen for that Platform. So from one day to another it became insecure?! I do not believe that they infected over 600.000 maschines over night but that this took some time... During that period people did not think that they were infected. But they were as it appeared! So what about iPhone?

- People simply thinking that the iStore is the securest environement on earth as it could get for you phone are ignorant. The fact that some people care about their security measures for their phones makes them (for me personally) better end-users of devices as those who do believe in myth'es... Regulary Apple retires App's from the store due to the fact of violating the rules of their shop =) Isn't that a hint?! An App spying on my contacts which was published in the shop obviously was not controlled correctly. This fals for me under the cathegory Malware but i might be a stupid user again...

- Some people might ignore the fact that it is possible to bypass iStore without any jailbraiking or stuff like that! There are ways for companies to program their own App's etc! But the fact of the possibility of jailbraiking in my eye's is enough to show that it possible to hack the device! Yeah... You need physical access. But who says that there are guys who bypassed that? Can anybody proof me that it is impossible?

Me for my case i had a good laugh when i read these pages and that's why i posted a message! I am looking for some protection for my business iPhone's and i have to say that beiing ignorant and not open to the dangers of the digital society makes you more vulnerable than those people who are seeking for protection without beiing paranoid! But as always... Protection start with the user!

Have a nice day!