Thursday, November 12, 2009 SYDNEY: The Australian programmer who claims to have created the world's first Apple iPhone virus as a prank said does not regret writing it.First IPhone Worm Spreads Rick Astley WallpaperThe worm, 'Ikee' changes iPhone owners' wallpaper and replaces it with a photo of '80s pop star Rick Astley and the message "ikee is never going to give you up".Twenty-one-year-old Wollongong resident Ashley Towns, said he created the virus out of curiosity and boredom."I had just formatted my iPhone and it told me to set the password in bold, big letters and I wondered how many people have actually done that," Towns said."So I ran a scan on my 3G network and there was 26 phones running the service that's vulnerable, and out of that 26, 25 hadn't changed their passwords."Towns said he loves the iPhone so there was no vendetta against Apple, just disbelief that many users had failed to change their passwords when req...
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