Viruses Find A New Host: Cell Phones

An anonymous reader writes "A NYTimes article (free reg) describes the dangers posed by viruses as 3G and text-messaging become more common, inluding an incident in '01 where numerous phones in Japan began calling 110 (equivalent to 911 in the U.S.). Wired mentions 13M vulnerable phones in Japan alone." (And that was a few years ago.)

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...AV conspiracy

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the big AV companies are behind it all....

This is only going to get worse

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as mobile phone technology advances. Mobile phone manafacturers need to remember security, and possibly send out fixes for vunerabilities that are free to download.