It was predicted to happen. The New Year was supposed to usher in a new wave of evil iPhone coders, and it looks like an 11-year old kid decided to kick off the new year with his very own piece of iPhone malware. The iPhone Trojan sneaks in through jailbroken iPhones’ Installer.app and starts deleting files from your iPhone’s /var/root/bin directory upon uninstallation.
Beware any Installer.app posing as “113 prep,” an update to “Erica’s Utilities.” Apparently, all the app does is display the prompt “shoes” and nothing else. And, as we just mentioned, it deletes system files when you try to uninstall the little bugger.
Just like an 11-year old to create a piece of malware that does little more than annoy the hell out of you. Shouldn’t he be watching “Dora the Explorer” DVDs or something?
We should consider ourselves lucky that the first malware for the iPhone isn’t any worse. This little trojan just shows all iPhone users to stay wary of unknown applications that you install through the popular Installer.app application. The next piece of malware may come from a more skilled code-writer hell-bent on messin’ with iPhone owners.
[Via: iPhone Central]