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[catlin.livejournal.com]

That is your PHONE that virus laden??? Dear god.

I had to clean my grandmothers computer once. I thought it had the most viruses I had ever seen. It had around 250 viruses and somewhere over 30k spyware bits.

[lafinjack.livejournal.com]

No, it's a website that displays Windows-like elements saying you have malware to get you to panic and click on their malware.

[theweaselking.livejournal.com]

No.

That's a webpage that's meant to look like a Windows "OMG YOUR COMPUTER IS SO FUXXORED" window, to trick you into clicking on links to install and approve their malware.

The web page is faking a Windows desktop, and hasn't noticed that the device *looking* at the web page is actually an iPhone.

[pappy-legba.livejournal.com]

This post will seem charming when phone malware really does hit the big-time. Google's decision to let the Android platform get fragmented all to hell means that it will probably end up as the biggest target. (Unless, of course, MS lets Windows7PhoneForMobileXPDeluxeWithFries get equally as fragmented.)

[theweaselking.livejournal.com]

It's as "charming" as seeing those same screenshots on a mac or linux.

[peristaltor.livejournal.com]

Ah, but I have. Mom called in a rumpus because a window popped up saying "Windows detected a virus and you need to download a fix NOW!!!", then got panicked when the downloaded .exe file wouldn't run.

"Mom," I said, "you have a Mac."

[theweaselking.livejournal.com]

I've seen that kind of thing, too. That's not the point - this isn't "charming" or "quaint".

[maelorin]

agreed.

[peristaltor.livejournal.com]

Agreed. In Mom's case, though, no harm was done. Can't say the same for the infected computer that sent her that, though.

[theweaselking.livejournal.com]

PS: Android, being the biggest market, will be the biggest target pretty much by definition. Although the "get one, get them all" factor of the iPhone, combined with the relative technical cluelessness of the users, might provide competition for a bit.

[pappy-legba.livejournal.com]

Android isn't the problem-- Motorola, Samsung, Verizon and its ilk are.

I love my Droid, but I can't update it without rooting it and using a custom bootloader. Most people can't do that, so the platform is going to be a lot more vulnerable than the Iphone that gets, you know, regular security updates. Iphone's security has considerable problems, but at least there's a clear channel to patch them. How many rampant malware outbreaks will be necessary to get Samsung, Motorola and Verizon on board with patching their handsets up even to Android 2.3, much less 3.0?

Google should have been less concerned with how many bezel buttons they force on their partners and moreso with keeping the software corpus coherent.

MS might be in the same boat, considering they can't even get a patch to allow copy/pasting out the door...

[undeadbydawn.livejournal.com]

the whole Android version control / upgrade doodah puzzles me greatly.

[I'm on an old and clunky iOS cos I can't upgrade. I have it tethered with MyWi, and no proper internet. Apple checks online to see if the OS is legit, which it can't cos the phone - being in upgrade mode - isn't online. CRASH!!!]