First Mobile Phone Virus...

[Fidgits]

I'm sure everyones all heard the 'spoof' viruses for your phones, well, while they were all fakes, you knew it had to happen eventually, and here we are, the first mobile/PC crossover virus is out.

First off this particular virus is nothing to worry about for the moment; it looks like proof-of-concept code put out by a hacking group to show how clever it is.

The danger is that someone else will take this code, and work out how to automate it. And before you know it script kiddies around the world will be churning out copies and fooling themselves that they are expert computer underworld heroes, rather than sad imitators with too much time on their hands.

But as the PC and phone converge it's guaranteed we'll see more of these types of attacks. As with PC-only viruses, be sensible and you won't get caught out. And never, ever accept unidentified code. Safe computing is a must.

[Fidgits]

Full story:

http://www.vnunet.com/vnunet/news/2142665/...crossover-virus

[MrADeveci]

As good as Symbian based phones are ......... I hate em ..... too slow ... and always prone to stuff like this !

I'll stick to non Symbian software based phones ta ! :)

[Lex-aholic]

As good as Symbian based phones are ......... I hate em ..... too slow ... and always prone to stuff like this ! 

I'll stick to non Symbian software based phones ta !  :)

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Umm.....what's Symbian based phones ? :duh:

[Fidgits]

symbian is a company - they used to make the psion PDA's, but have now gone into software only..

They provide the O/S for most major 'smart phones', from Nokia, Ericsson and Motorola..

The premis was to have interoprobility between the phones to make life easier, but as Ahmet pointed out - that just creates a vunrability...

however, data transfer under the symbian system is much improved over standard GPRS ;)

[MrADeveci]

Umm.....what's Symbian based phones ? :duh:

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http://www.symbian.com/

Google: Symbian

;)

[Lex-aholic]

Ohhh....thanks for the replies, I'm not the brightest of buttons when it comes to mobile phones. :)