Can Facebook viruses affect iPhone/iOS (15 points)?

[Walid]

My friend sent me a pic, and I clicked it to see a girl smiling. Then I asked him "What's this picture?" And he said "It's a virus. If you click the link, the link will be sent to everyone through your messages."

It wasn't sent to anyone thank God. But I'm still worried. Can Facebook viruses affect iOS?

[Ivan]

Only if the virus is programmed to infect phone operating systems such as iOS (IPhone)

[Ronnie]

Virus's cannot be spread through facebook. They need to access Operating system areas that apps like facebook cant however there is a facebook update released today that is causing system problems for the iphone and for that you just need to uninstall facebook and re-install

[Duncan]

No. iOS apps run in a Sandbox. They cannot interact with other apps. You would have to give your permission for the picture viewer app to access your Contacts and Messages.

http://developer.apple.com/library/ios/d...nment.html

[Markus]

No, as long as it isn't jailbroken then its really hard to infect an iphone as they are very secure, nothing to worry about. You might see spam popup ads on websites, etc, but it wont infect an iphone.