Can an ipad get a virus?

[therealriley]

I heard of this one attack that got iPhones that we're jailbroken. It's quite funny and was harmless I believe but it's still a possibility, so I would never say never.
Search google for 'iphone you got rick rolled' and you can read lots of articles on this. It changed the home screen to a picture of rick Astley haha

 

[Mickey330]

I heard of this one attack that got iPhones that we're jailbroken. It's quite funny and was harmless I believe but it's still a possibility, so I would never say never.
Search google for 'iphone you got rick rolled' and you can read lots of articles on this. It changed the home screen to a picture of rick Astley haha

To add to this - the ONLY reason the phones got "RickRolled" was because the phone owners did not change their default system password after opening their phones up for Secure Shell (SSH) work. Those that changed the password - didn't get RickRolled.

Marilyn

 

[AQ_OC]

So far at my work we have help "clean up" 100's (possibly thousands) of iPads with viruses. The typical one that we get is the one we cut from the network since they had phising attack malware in them. Since their MAC address is found to be the cause of the phising attack we immediately cut them out. Then the owners compain because they can not get on the network. We verify in on an isolated network that they are the one causing it. The solution have been easy so far. Usually backing up the data and wiping (ie RESETing EVERYTHING) it to the new status. Apps downloaded back and data put back. We verify that the iPad is healthy again (no more phising attacks) and we return them and let them roam the network again. We usually have the owners do the procedure themselves (except for the ones we rent/loan).

We get a large amount of transient traffic since we have a public network that people can use for free. So far we have done this cleaning for free but starting next year we will be charging for the service since it is not rare occasion. Amazingly we rarely get this from actual laptops (either PC, Mac or Linux).

We only care about the viruses that affect the network so I can not say other viruses exist on laptops or other devices but we have encounter plenty on the iPad (this year with the exception of 1 Windows XP laptop all our LOCAL problems have come from iPads). Currently the iPad is our worst nightmare. And the main reason is the hostility because of this false believe that they can not get viruses.

Nonsense.

 

[BocataDeChoped]

I think the only threat is a malicious app slipping through Apple's fingers into the AppStore. It happened several times on the Google Market, always were Chinese developed apps and mostly related to some sort of porn if I recall correctly.