It will come in the form of 499 invisible text messages and one visible that is just a box-shaped character. You will not know you've received the 499 previous texts, your phone will just be sluggish. Once you recieve the final text, turn your phone off or put it in airplane mode. This breaks the hacker's connection and they have to restart the process to regain access to your phone. Potential side effects of the hack include a complete phone crash, disconnection of service from the network or the potential for them to use your phone as a zombie, taking over complete control of all its functions. Apple has so far declined to comment on the situation.
Edited to add this article issues today from PC World providing updated information:
http://www.pcworld.com/article/169405/iphone_virus_what_you_need_to_know.html
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