Jailbreak worry

coopersim · 28 Jul 2011 at 00:05

I asked this in Mobile Phones, but was pointed over here to Apple Hardware...

Hi

I jailbroke my phone yesterday with Jailbreakme 3, all went well, but today I checked my email to find 170 delivery failure reports, it seems "something" tried to send an email to every entry in my address book with a single URL to some rubbish site or other.

My worry is that my PC has been turned off during the period the emails were sent, is there a possibility that these were sent from my phone?

If so, what do I do? I've since installed the PDF Patch from Cydia, should that be enough to prevent further issues? I love what Jailbreaking has done in terms of additional functions, but if there is a security issue then I'm going to back this out straight away, hopefully one of you guys can put me straight!

KIA · 28 Jul 2011 at 02:13

How do you know your email account hasn't been compromised and used by someone else?

coopersim · 28 Jul 2011 at 02:44

I guess I don't, I just figured it was a weird coincidence with jailbreaking one day, then having the issue with the email the next

PaulyD · 28 Jul 2011 at 08:28

Definitely a coincidence.

Jailbreaking just gives you root access to your phone, it won't do anything funny to it.

Literally millions of people have used jailbreak me.com without a problem

Change password on email - job done