New iPhone Virus is More Sinister, Targets Netherland iPhone Users
The first iPhone virus was harmless. All the Ikee Worm did to your phone was display an image of Rick Astley. The BBC is reporting that a new iPhone virus is more serious. It is targeting people in the Netherlands who use the iPhone for banking. The virus uses a phising tactic and redirects people to a "lookalike site with a log-in screen."
The worm only attacks jail-broken iPhones that have SSH installed but have not changed the default password.
Many people use SSH so other programs can remotely connect to an iPhone and, among other things, transfer files. It comes with a default password, "alpine" which should be changed.
Users who have installed SSH and not changed the password are especially at risk.
The new worm is more serious than the first because it can behave like a botnet, warns F-Secure.
ING Bank told the BBC they are preparing to put up a warning on its website about the iPhone virus.
The first iPhone virus was harmless. All the Ikee Worm did to your phone was 
