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Security firm Sophos issued a warning Thursday about e-mails purportedly offering free iPhone games. The missives profess to feature a free game for the smartphone, but the only thing those who download the attachment receive is malware designed to infect PCs running Windows. The scam e-mails purport to include a file dubbed "Penguin.Panic.zip," a supposed version of the popular "Penguin Panic" motion-based iPhone app game, in which a cuddly Penguin jumps from one iceberg to another while avoiding falling icicles.
Sophos Strikes Again! More iPhone Sophistry!
Posted by: realitybites 2008-10-01 07:28:33 In reply to: Walaika Haskins
Let me get this straight...these security "experts" Sophos are saying that although the iPhone has nothing to do with this problem at all, it cannot send, receive, host or be infected by the malware, you geniuses though to write a headline with the phrase iPhone in it.
Why is this about the iPhone?
Is that the only way you can get anyone to look at you as a technical news source?
There are no iPhone viruii.
There are no iPhone malware attacks.
There's only idiot Windows users clicking on everything sent to them via e-mail including malware with the word iPhone in it's name.
Not ever realizing that you cannot load games onto an iPhone through your PC without it coming from Apple through iTunes or with a hacked iPhone.
Someone with a Windows PC that knows enough to own a hacked iPhone should know better than to click on an e-mail link, they're fair game for malware anyway.
But you should know better than to write crap like this, quoting, very nice I'm sure, folks with no real credentials and credibility with Mac OS based security threats.
Walaika, I'm disappointed in you for your lack of due diligence.
Why is this about the iPhone?
Is that the only way you can get anyone to look at you as a technical news source?
There are no iPhone viruii.
There are no iPhone malware attacks.
There's only idiot Windows users clicking on everything sent to them via e-mail including malware with the word iPhone in it's name.
Not ever realizing that you cannot load games onto an iPhone through your PC without it coming from Apple through iTunes or with a hacked iPhone.
Someone with a Windows PC that knows enough to own a hacked iPhone should know better than to click on an e-mail link, they're fair game for malware anyway.
But you should know better than to write crap like this, quoting, very nice I'm sure, folks with no real credentials and credibility with Mac OS based security threats.
Walaika, I'm disappointed in you for your lack of due diligence.
