A Question on the iPhone SMS Hack

If your text messaging feature was blocked on your plan so like no messages you send or any one sends to you would go through. Would that SMS Hacking message go to your phone?

I got hacked last night. I deleted the text b/c I thought it was a wrong number. It was a foreign number and it did have strange spacing and symbols in it plus was written in bad English. Worse than my English anyways. Later that night my iPhone started playing music on its own. I thought I must of accidentally set it off some how. I turned off the music and went to bed. I had no idea I was being hacked. This guy probably has all my information. Anyways, I didn't think anything of it until I read about the SMS virus today. I've power cycled my phone and patched it but I'm not sure what I should do next, there is no telling what this guy got from my phone. I find it strange that my phone does this the night before the patch comes out.
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Jake300 wrote:
1. Does the iPhone have a good stability? (doesnt randomly break down etc)
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drew081886 wrote:
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Only the last 4 apps to be run are actually active and in RAM. The others are swapped out to flash memory in a saved state (i.e you should be able to resume where you left off, if the app is written to support that). They don't therefore drain battery. I close all apps down from time to time (every few days) just to keep things neat.
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mikkilla wrote:
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mikkilla wrote:
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How can I completely REMOVE the tethering hack from my iPhone, and from iTunes/iMac ???
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