what makes you think it’s not on the iphone?
my guess... the feds ‘requested’ the feature for all upcoming telcom devices
Jon Oberheide is a deceptive jackass.
Don’t you be downloading anything, even harmless anythings, to my mobile under false pretenses. Jackass.
The only thing that made his virus “harmless” is because it pulled down harmless code. All he has to do is change the code on his home server, and you got yerself a paperweight that looks like a mobile phone...
Seems to me the greater danger is someone hacking the install, remotely attacking Droids without the user having to do anything.
fyi
How is this different from automatic updates or virus scans?
Interesting; sounds like Google is being proactive and removing actual malware - malware that the author specifically developed and rolled-out for that purpose.
Two applications - where the author openly stated they were malware proof-of-concept for Android and the iPhone - out of tens of thousands.
Personally, I wouldn’t be upset about Apple or Microsoft doing this; it’s what malware software does, if it’s decent software (meaning can actually remove, rather than just prevent installation).
An interesting question: what about those with jailbroken iPhones who have the malware still installed? I wonder if they are still being infected by this application?
This’ll be a hacker’s wet-dream in about a week or so - now that everyone knows it’s there, I’m sure there’s a botnet someplace working on a hack. I’ll stick with my dumb cell phone, and for important things, face-to-face conversation.