Hold on a moment, there’s no single virus in existence for the iPhone and considering how tightly Apple intends to control the third party application deployments, it’s kinda doubtful we’ll see any serious security breaches hitting the iPhone any time soon. Yes, there will be some Safari problems but nothing major Apple can’t fix with a quick firmware upgrade.
Apparently, that doesn’t stop McAfee from developing its software — the so called iVirusScan — for the platform. And while we’ve no idea whether the security company actually works on such solution, the screenshots look quite legit. To be fair, though, it doesn’t seem so hard to prepare them in Photoshop for any skilled user.
One thing that bothers me is that even if some iPhone malware starts appearing following the new firmware and third-party applications, I doubt Apple will admit it right from the bat. Rather, they’ll release the new update ASAP and fix all known bugs and security holes. We’ll see where this goes…
[Via: slashphone]