Worst kind of **** found on my iPod touch - where's it from???

Question

I was experimenting with one of my music apps (Audio 3-D Player) but the iPad may have been switching between apps because a picture appeared for just a second and disappeared (so it probably wasn't that app at all - and some of the worst kind of **** appeared. I was so freaked out I did a total reset of the device but now I'm afraid to download any apps. I did a search and found no Apple specific help with this matter. I'm not a prude re **** but this was material that could give me nightmares and ruin my or anyone else's reputation; it was truly disturbing stuff. I'd report it to the police but I don't know enough about iPod file management to know where to find the file or what app it was specifically part of. My iPod Touch was attached to my Windows machine so now I'm wanted to reinstall everything on every machine.. Am I over-reacting. How do people find this crap and clean it off their machines - and then be sure it's no longer there.

Answer 1

Unless you have jailbroken your device, then it is not spy/malware. The same regarding getting anything from the Windows computer. You say that you have never used Safari on the iPod, so you do not use the internet through Safari? If you are using an app, and this generally applies to free apps, that have advertising as part of their package, it probably came from there. An accidental tap on one of those advertisements can cause problems, but if you know what app you had open at the time, I would complain to them about their advertising. What generally happens is they purchase a service to add advertisements to their site, and at times, things like this can get through. I can understand it being a shock. Devices connected to the internet can be prone to anything, depending on what you may be doing at the time. These are also caused by java script on websites, but since you say you were not on the web, it would have to have been from an application.