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Asked: 2021-12-05T11:19:29+00:00 In:

Can My iPod Be Hacked By Someone Else With Out Me Knowing?

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how to know if my ipod is hacked – can they put tracking devices on it, see me through my camera ?? I feel like I am now watched all the time……… or the microphone is all weird and volume is always changing….. I have never had it jail breaked….. but I run it all the time through wifi at my house………my computers have just virus I have fixed and my wifi got hacked so have finished changing all my passwords and wifi accounts………….. can my ipod be affected??

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      If you really want to scan your PC i would also suggest the following software:

      MalwareBytes
      http://download.cnet.com/Malwarebyt…

      Spybot search and destroy
      http://www.safer-networking.org/dl/

      SuperAntispyware
      http://www.superantispyware.com/

      All free and available if you google them

      I honestly dont think your ipod can be infected, the IOS is needs to be jailbroken in order to execute a virus, and if your ipod is not jailbroken i wouldnt worry too much about it. Having said that, i you are still concered, instead of trying to find an application to scan it, which i doubt will work anyways, i would just reset the ipod to factory and be done with it that way you can be sure the virus, if any are gone.

      In terms of wifi, i understand it can be a bit dawnting but no need to worry, if you have questions just post them here and the experts on this site will no doubt help, we are a friendly bunch 🙂

      As long as you have a password set for your wifi and have either WEP, WPA or WPA2 encryption enabled (depending on your router) you should be fine. A firewall is also recommended for an additional layer of security.

      It may be worth backing your photos up onto a DVD/Blueray disk, hard drives at some point will fail, sometimes without warning, it is possible to recoever data on a failed hard drive sometimes, but it is expensive.

      You can scan your usb drives, just plug them in before you run a scan and they should be scanned automatically. Some programs like AVG will give you the option to select which drives you want to scan

      So you clarify:

      Your ipod cannot be infected unless its jailbroken

      Im not aware of any ipod scanning tools, but if you still want to be sure i would reset to factory

      Backup your data to a DVD of Blueray

      Download the software i recommended above update them once installed and perform a full scan.

      Let us know how you get on

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