iPhone 'Rickroll' Worm Is No Threat To Most Users

From PC World: The first worm to infect the iPhone will not affect most users of Apple's smartphone, despite worrying reports. The ikee worm only affects jailbroken iPhones, representing a minority percentage of iPhones on the market.

Reports this weekend warned of a number of iPhones in Australia reportedly infected by a worm that only replaces the device's background wallpaper with an image of 80's pop icon Rick Astley.

According to security firm Sophos, the worm attempts to find another jailbroken iPhone on the mobile phone network and install itself. However, there have been no confirmed reports of infections outside Australia's territory.

What needs to be stressed though, is the fact that the ikee worm only affects jailbroken iPhones running the SSH app with the default password, which represents a very small percentage of the total number of iPhones out there.

Jailbreaking an iPhone (with tools such as purplera1n) removes Apple's protection mechanism, allowing the phone to run any software outside the company's own App Store, including nasties such ikee.

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