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Worm attack bites at Apple iPhone

The worm changes the wallpaper of the phone
The first worm to infect the Apple iPhone has been discovered spreading "in the wild" in Australia.

The self-propagating program changes the phone's wallpaper to a picture of 80s singer Rick Astley with the message "ikee is never going to give you up".

The worm, known as ikee, only affects "jail-broken" phones, where a user has removed Apple's protection mechanisms to allow the phone to run any software.

Experts say the worm is not harmful but more malicious variants could follow.

"The creator of the worm has released full source code of the four existing variants of this worm," wrote Mikko Hypponen of security firm F-secure.

SINGAPORE: Computer security firm Sophos issued a warning yesterday about an Internet virus transmitted from a mass email claiming to contain secret songs and photos of Michael Jackson.

The email comes with the subject “Remembering Michael Jackson” and is sent from “sarah/-a-t-/michaeljackson.com”, Sophos said in a statement. It tells recipients an attached file titled “Michael songs and pictures.zip” contains secret songs and photos of the pop music icon, who died on June 25. Sophos warned computer users not to open the attachment.
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