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    From badgolferman@REMOVETHISbadgolferman@gmail.com to misc.phone.mobile.iphone on Thu Sep 18 11:23:59 2025
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    Has anyone ever had malware (virus, worm, trojan horse, spyware,
    ransomware, etc.) on their phone? If so how did you find out and what
    did you do to fix it?

    I hear and read articles about this stuff but have never known anyone
    who actually was infected by these things. Is this a real problem for
    phones or just sensationalized stories to scare people?
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  • From =?UTF-8?Q?J=C3=B6rg_Lorenz?=@hugybear@gmx.net to misc.phone.mobile.iphone on Thu Sep 18 18:17:59 2025
    From Newsgroup: misc.phone.mobile.iphone

    Am 18.09.2025 um 17:23 schrieb badgolferman:
    Has anyone ever had malware (virus, worm, trojan horse, spyware,
    ransomware, etc.) on their phone? If so how did you find out and what
    did you do to fix it?

    I hear and read articles about this stuff but have never known anyone
    who actually was infected by these things. Is this a real problem for
    phones or just sensationalized stories to scare people?

    Perhaps on Androids but rather not on iOS-devices with updated OSs.
    I did not read anything of this kind recently.
    --
    "Roma locuta, causa finita" (Augustinus)
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  • From Marion@marionf@fact.com to misc.phone.mobile.iphone on Thu Sep 18 22:47:11 2025
    From Newsgroup: misc.phone.mobile.iphone

    badgolferman wrote:
    Has anyone ever had malware (virus, worm, trojan horse, spyware,
    ransomware, etc.) on their phone? If so how did you find out and what
    did you do to fix it?

    I hear and read articles about this stuff but have never known anyone
    who actually was infected by these things. Is this a real problem for
    phones or just sensationalized stories to scare people?

    Funny thing, I asked the same question of the Windows & Android newsgroups recent, and NONE of us have gotten any virus or malware in many years.

    Even as normal loading (i.e., "sideloading") has been available to us since
    the dawn of these platforms.

    I think what's changed from the past is not so much that we're intelligent people, so we can smell malware a mile away, but that both platforms have OEM-updated heuristic-driven malware checkers that run 24/7 on our
    machines.

    Obviously there will be less malware on iOS because there's less choice on
    iOS but there's really no malware on Android that any of us have ever seen.

    Even though I have a thousand packages installed (half of which I installed myself) on my 64GB Android, every time Android malware is discussed in the news, it's always never on my system.

    I think, essentially, 3 people in the world download that stuff.
    Hence, sure, it exists.

    But nobody downloads it.
    And, if they did, it wouldn't last a day anyway.

    Both Windows & Android will delete malware on sight.
    So, in effect, it doesn't exist.

    It's just stuff the news loves to write yellow journalism about (IMHO).
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