Virus on Ipad

Security Concerns over Virus on Ipad
The age of a new generation of computing machines has arrived. Thanks to the ingenuity of people who introduced the apple ipad. The ipad has become an ubiquitous gadget used not only by facebooking adults but also by young users as young as preschoolers who use apple store applications to learn basic language and mathematical skills. The new-found fame of this apple tablet has inevitably led to security concerns over virus on ipad. Will virus and malware attacks on conventional computers replicate as infection and attacks of virus on ipad?


Can Ipads get viruses?

Can an ipad get a virus? Users of ipad, iphones and ipod touch must observe safe browsing and computing practices particularly those with jailbroken devices because according to Apple, users who install their own software without apple's protection can have their information stolen or unwittingly download malwares by clicking on certain PDF files. *

The possibility of an ipad virus thus, is not remote and it is not impossible that malware creators may be successful in exploiting security holes to compromise idevices and inject malwares and viruses on ipad.

Ipad Antivirus
To date, no large scale virus ipad attack has yet been reported and apple still considers it unnecessary to have an antivirus for ipad.  More often than not, suspected symptoms of ipad virus such as screens that freeze turn out to be a hardware issue and not an ipad virus problem.

How to protect ipad from virus
It won't hurt to observe precaution when using your ipad.

1. Avoid downloading applications outside of the apple apps store.
2. Use Apple's standard and updated firmware.
3. Be cautious of opening, downloading and forwarding suspicious links and attachments such as those that are sent through your email.

*http://www.news-record.com/content/2011/07/08/article/security_holes_discovered_in_iphones_ipads