OK on my work computer, I went to a website regatrding madden Football game. I found the website by googling the subject.
Well as soon as I clicked on an item in the website, the Norton Protection on my work PC indicated that auto protect stopped and quarantines a file Trojan.Webkit!html
Not worried about teh work computer. The IT guys here will handle that.
What I'm worried about is I went to that same website on my iPhone 4s earlier in the day.
Now I am wondering if my iPhone is infected? There really is no way to find out since there is no way to look for files.
Guess I'm wondering what the others on here think as far as the iPhone being infected. I know they operate differently than the PCs
If the infection through that site is something designed to attack a Windows PC then I think your iPhone is safe. Also merely using the same WiFi as your PC should not pass an infection to the PC, unless you pass files through your iPhone to the PC.
The iPhone and the PC process information in quite different ways and so an attack on one should not normally work on the other.
While the number of threats to your iPhone on the web is far less than those to your PC, this is not to say that there are none. What I am not sure about is how to protect your Safari browser in the way that NIS or N360 protects your PC. If you have Norton Mobile Security (NMS) on an Android device it checks all links if you use the default android browser or the Chrome browser, but I do not think that the iPhone version yet has such protection.
Does that help at all?
Hopefully someone more knowledgeable than I, especially in regard to NMS and iPhones will chip in where I have got it wrong or missed something.
I am replying not to leave your message unanswered not because I am an expert in the area.
It is my understanding that the HTML code works more or less the same in terms of display, on all internet browsers whatever they are running on. However as I understand the normal aim of malicious software of this type is to use the medium of the web browser to get at the operating system of the host device. A malicious piece of software designed to take control of a PC is most unlikely to impact an Android device.
What the intentions were of whoever wrote a trojan is only known to them.
You may be lucky and get a response from someone who really knows about these issues, but in the interim I hope that helps.
OK on my work computer, I went to a website regatrding madden Football game. I found the website by googling the subject.
Well as soon as I clicked on an item in the website, the Norton Protection on my work PC indicated that auto protect stopped and quarantines a file Trojan.Webkit!html
Not worried about teh work computer. The IT guys here will handle that.
What I'm worried about is I went to that same website on my iPhone 4s earlier in the day.
Now I am wondering if my iPhone is infected? There really is no way to find out since there is no way to look for files.
Guess I'm wondering what the others on here think as far as the iPhone being infected. I know they operate differently than the PCs
Even though iOS and Mac OS are both made by Apple, the underlying operating system software is still different. Mobile devices use what's called a Reduced Instruction Set Chip (RISC) for the CPU, necessitating a different approach to programming. Consequently you're not going to find a whole lot of malware families that can infect both types of devices with the same code.
There may be exceptions for cross-platform executable packages like Java code--but if this was such a case, that would be noted explicitly as a vulnerability to iOS as well as Macs.
So it's likely safe to assume you're OK this time. If you want to check your home PC (whether you have other antivirus protection installed there or not), I would recommend the free version of malwarebytes (http://www.malwarebytes.org/lp/malware_lp_form/). Malwarebytes isn't as effective at keeping malware off your PC as Norton, but it can be better at detecting infections that are already in place; it makes a good crosscheck if you're ever concerned something may have gotten through. Do not activate or upgrade to the paid version of Malwarebytes if you have Norton (or any other virus checker) on your machine, as it has realtime scanning functions that will conflict with similar functions in other packages--ironically making you less secure.
Finally, you might want to get Norton Mobile Security on your iPhone, if you don't have it already. While there are far fewer families of malware that target iOS than other operating systems, the infection rate for those that exist is much higher, since many iOS users do not have virus protection installed.
Let us know how it goes, or if you have any other questions. Good luck!
Compared to Android, no. Apple only recently became willing to open their APIs sufficiently for security vendors to create products for them, so the iOS product line is by definition less mature. Apple would tell you that iOS devices don't need security software--but as I noted in my last post, that's not exactly true. (BTW, I do not nor have I ever worked for Symantec; I'm a retired senior national security professional who had information systems security responsibilities for a couple decades.)
Bottom line: while NMS for iOS currently lacks some of the "bells & whistles" its Android version has, it provides the same protection against malware--and from your original post, that seemed to be your concern. That's a reasonable concern, and my recommendation to address it is NMS...but you're welcome to select a different provider if you feel they meet your needs better. Just get something reputable...before you do get a virus on your iPhone.
Just a minor clarification as I believe that the original question related to use of a web-sites. I don't believe that the iPhone version provides web browser protection. In the case of Android Norton Mobile Security (NMS) provides protection for the default Android browser and Chrome (which is also described as the default browser on some devices...). As far as I am aware NMS does not provide any protection for Safari or any other iPhone browser, at the moment...
So while I am not disagreeing with DistEd2 I was not sure whether you would be clear on this before you decide what to do.