It is usual to have conversations that start with the iPhone virus?

Viruses are common in the world of desktop computers, thanks to constant security holes and never eliminated from Windows.

The Mac, in the beginning, remained free from the beginning thanks to their small market share, in which it made a virus for such a small and dispersed community did not have enough profitability.

When Apple decided to abandon its traditional operating system, it did so assuming a UNIX nucleus which made it intrinsically safer.

It is not here the place to explain the base of modern macOS, but the important thing is that, when Apple started to develop the iPhone operating system, it did so by reducing its macOS, to adapt it to the specifications of a deviceMobile: energy consumption, limited memory availability, etc..

For this reason, the security of macOS has been inherited (and improved) by the iPhone.

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The media are very careful when talking about viruses in "mobile phones".They always maintain a calculated ambiguity, putting Android and iOS in the same sack, so that the viewer never is clear if Apple's phone can have virus or not.

There are several explanations for that ambiguity, we will review those that occur to us:

It is possible that you, dear reader, have other information to add more valid or real arguments than our twisted keyboard suggests.Feel free to add them on the keyboard.

True, all the articles you find talking about virus on the iPhone will talk about Jailbreak as the door so that viruses can enter your iPhone.

(In case you don't know, Jailbreak refers to "hacking" the iPhone operating system to install programs without going through the App Store).

In that journey of breaking the file system and iOS security protections (Jailbreak translates by “leaving jail”), open doors are left that are the ones that take advantage of the malicious software to seize your phone.

So, it is true, there may be virus on the iPhone, if you have made Jailbreak.

But extending that to the “iPhone” category in general, is like saying that cars are spoiled a lot, when you are actually taking only the statistics of the cars that have modified their engine to offer characteristics that the manufacturer had not planned.

Although the iPhone has no virus in the usual concept of the term, it is subject to other types of malicious codes that hinder and spoil the experience of telephone use.

Of all of them the most notable is the adware.

With the term adware we refer to any program that automatically shows unwanted or misleading advertising in order to generate profit to its authors.

If you observe that the strange behavior appears when you open a certain app, such as it would redirect to a strange web page or that the app store is opened unexpectedly, delete the application you have active when it happens to you and turn it to install (from the App Store).If after doing so, you should probably take it to an authorized technical service.

Other signs that you can have something that is not working well are these characteristics:

As seen in the graph, taken from here (it is the most modern we have found, it is curious that they have stopped making comparative graphics on viruses in iOS and Android -probably for some of the reasons we mentioned at the beginning), threats, threatsMain for iOS are the ADWARE, followed by the HTML (files capable of infecting a system using an HTML script), infections using Office programs (Microsoft and security always present) using Visual Basic macros and scripts from within the applications ofOffice, like Excel, Word, etc..and "exploits" that are files that exploit vulnerabilities of the system or specific applications.

The other category gathers false or deceptive apps, files that use hidden extensions, phishing and unwanted applications.

You can eventually see in the news that there is a new ransomware for iOS (kidnap your iPhone until you pay a "reward" to free it).

They say in click technology:

In this way, Wirelurker is considered the most dangerous malware for iOS, capable of stealing all personal data, including contact addresses or text messages, in addition to taking control of the device.It spreads via USB and it is not necessary in this case to have jailbreak.

In the dangerous field of "Ramsonware", iPhone has also suffered attacks like Keranger.This virus spreads through a Bittorrent file download customer and takes control of the device, asking for a rescue to unlock it to unlock it.

Normally all these things are news because they are exceptional.On Android it is rarely reported because it is the daily jungle in which they live.

We are not saying that the iPhone is perfect.Periodically the researchers discover different ways of accessing the iPhone without the owner knowing.

It can be through safari, messages, email, etc..

In many cases, physical access is required to the phone (which implies that they know the password) but there are also attacks that can be executed remotely.

So it is not true that the iPhone is invulnerable.Can be attacked and can access data.Only that it is extremely complex to achieve it and very difficult to be done in a generalized way in many terminals simultaneously.

In general, when talking about malicious software there are three categories:

As you will see, from time to time your iPhone has an update of the operating system (those desperate minutes in which the iPhone is useless because it has to install a new version).Those are the opportunities that Apple takes the opportunity to cover and correct the ways that the bad have to access your device.

You can be sure that Apple takes very seriously the security of the iPhone (as well as the privacy of your data), we could say that it is its main sales argument.

The options are simple and you can do them yourself.Here we show them in order of "radicality":

1.Restart the device

two.Delete history and navigation data

3.Restore the device with an ICloud backup

4.Rest the iPhone as a factory out

To date it can be said that there is no virus for iPhone, and that any problem you have has its origin in something different.Unless you do Jailbreak and dedicate yourself to downloading programs of doubtful origin in pages of doubtful origin.

Eventually it can happen that your iPhone is infected with an adware application, or with some malicious script through a Microsoft Office document, but they are relatively easy to eliminate.

The iPhone has security problems, like anything private in the real world: your home, your car, your phone, etc..that are corrected over time based on operating system updates.

The iPhone, as a device that uses multiple applications, is stalked by security threats