Comments on: How to Protect yourself from the iPhone Virus

By: Trepsul

Trepsul — Sat, 01 Aug 2009 18:16:48 +0000

Sraj and Paul seem to be right: All this does is to prevent the opening or displaying the SMS message after you ‘slide to unlock’ for example or when you’re notified of a new SMS.

When the MobileSMS.app is “modified” and message is not displayed, it’s still going to the inbox. After un-”modifying” it and enabling Airplane Mode ON, restarting the iPhone and going to SMS there’s a new message notification and inside the Inbox there’s the message already downloaded.

I guess this is useless since the “virus” is not activated when you open the SMS message but once it gets inside the Inbox, right?

By: Paul

Paul — Sat, 01 Aug 2009 11:34:53 +0000

Attention iPhone users: This will NOT fix the problem. All this does is inconvenience you while providing no protection at all.

By: Sraj

Sraj — Sat, 01 Aug 2009 04:17:44 +0000

Fredz it doesnt to work coz even closing sms app i m recieving sms my notification saw d messages are still coming n after changing permission to 755 i saw messages r in d inbox so it will not work in my views

By: Trepsul

Trepsul — Sat, 01 Aug 2009 00:48:42 +0000

had to look around, apparently use Mobile Finder from Cydia then go MobileSMS.app and click on it, click Modify then under Owner, Group and Everyone turn Read, Write Exec OFF for each ( 9 total) . I hope this is right, someone please confirm. After doing this, while clicking on the SMS App, it goes back to front screen. Anyone?

By: Trepsul

Trepsul — Fri, 31 Jul 2009 23:57:31 +0000

Any other methods to set permissions? For some reason SSH doesn’t work here.

By: BnH

BnH — Fri, 31 Jul 2009 23:09:35 +0000

Patch is out!

By: SD5150

SD5150 — Fri, 31 Jul 2009 18:23:42 +0000

You can still upgrade and jailbreak on 3.1, its just the unlock that will be a problem, so if Apple does release a patch in 3.1 it still would be possible to upgrade and keep the jailbreak. Of course we don’t know for sure until 3.1 is out….

By: Scarzio

Scarzio — Fri, 31 Jul 2009 17:28:25 +0000

This sounds stupid but would turning off your texting plan with your carrier help prevent the virus? (turn off texting as in not allow to receive or send any text)

By: Skyline_v35

Skyline_v35 — Fri, 31 Jul 2009 17:24:24 +0000

What if no other iPhone users have my number. If they can only do this to iPhones. I should be pretty safe. Right?

By: Dr zaid

Dr zaid — Fri, 31 Jul 2009 10:33:20 +0000

The moron who released the virus is the one who should be blamed.
Apples refusal to take this seriously is expected from a stubborn greedy policy but no justification to those creating viruses, stealing other peoples calls and credits.
So personally, the virus creature can go F_ck himself.
Typical society reject living in the garage I guess.
I will never let such scum affect my life.
Keep messages on. Stop this fear.
Enjoy things to the full.