Comments on: Apple responds to iPhone anti-phishing confusion

By: Kevin O'Regan

Kevin O'Regan — Thu, 24 Sep 2009 20:03:55 +0000

To check if it’s up to date you could take a link from the PhishTank site (http://www.phishtank.com/phish_search.php?valid=y&active=y&Search=Search) and paste it into Safari.

The link is to verified, online phishing sites.

By: charli

charli — Wed, 23 Sep 2009 19:16:23 +0000

the wifi is likely more cause it is less likely to drop the signal. and the ’screen off’ means you won’t be doing stuff on it that might drop the download.

i set mine up at home to do it overnight while I was asleep. not a big deal.

By: Nate Mudge

Nate Mudge — Mon, 14 Sep 2009 20:54:26 +0000

Is there anyway to even check to see if this has been applied? I did all of the things listed, and would like to check and see if it happened?

By: Jim Dalrymple

Jim Dalrymple — Mon, 14 Sep 2009 12:59:37 +0000

Not that I’m aware of.

By: Joseph Debono

Joseph Debono — Mon, 14 Sep 2009 05:01:33 +0000

Yes I happen to be in one of the “…few countries where dataplans are not unlimited…” namely Australia.

Thanks Apple for the consideration.

By: Chas4

Chas4 — Mon, 14 Sep 2009 02:18:44 +0000

Any way to check when the anti-phishing database was last updated?

By: Walt

Walt — Sun, 13 Sep 2009 17:01:13 +0000

” “After updating to iPhone OS 3.1 the user should launch Safari, connect to a Wi-Fi network and charge their iPhone with the screen off. For most users this process should happen automatically when they charge their phone.” ”

You think this might have been something worth mentioning. Sounds like they are saying Safari needs to be running in the foreground while charging with the screen off in order for this update to happen. Or is this just an alternate procedure in case the normal charging process doesn’t trigger the update?

Also, what’s up with the doing it over wifi so that data plans dont get charged unkowingly? I guess this must be for a few countries where dataplans are not unlimited, or perhaps users traveling abroad are not going to pick up extra roaming data fees. Makes sense that way I guess.

By: Country boy

Country boy — Sat, 12 Sep 2009 20:01:16 +0000

Good to see someone has taken the time out to really find out what is happening before running his mouth.

Thanks for the update Jim