Hi please help.virus iPad? I have a iPad 2 , not jail broken, just 2 months old fresh from the apple store. Recently I have been directed to **** sites or a fake bad oink **** application, t

AlaskanElizabeth wrote:

I realize this **** is way over your head, it's complex IT. But apple doesn't update security till they have to. They sure as heck didn't explain this update to the mass public. Unless you write advanced code and have a solid background in systems- this isn't easy to grasp or swallow. Guess that's why some of us are buy ios devices- and some of us are professionals.

Apparently reading comprehension is outside your brief as an IT professional. As is courtesy. I made a simple, polite request. I have never engaged in any ad hominem attacks or impuned your self-professed professional creditials. I have also never used profanity. You don't know what I do for a living or what my level of technical expertise is.

If you cannot provide documentation or citations for any viruses, trojans or other malware that currently infect unjailbroken iOS devices, I won't think any less of you if you just say you don't know of any.

Best of luck.

ASC used to be about helping people. The Lounge and threads like this are pathetic.

The support community is about helping people. What we don't like is someone posting something and not backing it up with facts. I have been a forum member since 2008 and have yet to see one credible post where someone with an iPhone or iPad has a confirmed, by Apple store visit, issue with a virus, Trojan, or malware problem. AlaskanElizabeth said that she has seen numerous iOS devices that are infected. If that is the case, I would have thought that someone would have posted a problem here.

Peter Bannon wrote:

ASC used to be about helping people. The Lounge and threads like this are pathetic.

Yes, it is pathetic that I asked for help from someone who says they are an expert on the subject and was met with insults about my intelligence and judgement. It's very sad.

Londongal wrote:

Ps I wrote to photon app support and they said it was a problem with the website being hacked and not use that website bit it still happens in other apps, ie safar and on really legit sites, like Cambridge university website....

I was surprised to read yesterday on a reputable A-V blog site an estimate that 25% of all web sites are infected by malware. Of course, not all are redirects nor will they likely be distributing malware that will impact OS X, but that's still a lot of opportunities for the unexpected.

There is no known malware capable of infecting an iOS device that hasn't been jailbroken. I notice that you haven't actually answered Meg's challenge and produced a single name. The reason, of course, is that there isn't one to be had, unless you know something that the entire security community does not.

Most updates for iOS include security updates. However, that does not mean that any of the vulnerabilities that get fixed in those updates have actually been exploited in the wild. All that these updates prove is that there was a potential for an exploit, if hackers managed to discover it.

I'm also a bit curious why you're choosing to post this on a topic that was already marked as being solved, two months ago...?