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First Mobile Phone Virus Discovered
CHaN_316 writes "News.com.au is running an article about the First Mobile Phone Virus Discovered. The virus 'called Cabir - appears to have been developed by an international group specialising in creating viruses which try to show "that no technology is reliable and safe from their attacks"... until now it has had no harmful effect.' Cabir infects the Symbian operating system, and spreads via bluetooth. Great... lets see when we can download the world's first mobile phone anti-virus!"
Go ahead, answer it. I dare you!
I think I think, therefore I think I am.
... dupe dupe. dupe of url, url, url.
I for one welcome our viral cellular overlords.
{ring ring}
You've been haxx0red!
In the future, I would want to not be isolated from my friends in the Space Station.
...first mobile phone virus dupe story!
You must think in Russian.
Here it comes, SMS spam offering downloadable anti-virus software!
Drill baby drill - on Mars
So I just need to stay 15 feet away from everyone and I should be fine.
Kinda like a real virus.
this virus has an unknown effect: /. over and over! ;)
it submits stories to
Quick, close port 80!
Obliteracy: Words with explosions
That's what they get for not implementing Linux on their hardware. Everyone knows Linux is teh bomb, and that it is immune to virii due to the fact that Linus smiled upon it. When will they learn? Corporate, pointy-headed drones, they are, incapable of seeing the truth even when it smacks them in their pasty managerial conformist greed-centric open-source hating faces.
Mod down people who tell people how to mod in their sigs
Since this is a dupe, and we are (mostly) intelligent people...how about we just start a new topic? Here:
The Holy Roman Empire was neither Holy nor Roman. Discuss.
Update: 06/15 15:15 GMT by M: You may remember we mentioned this earlier today.
Helpfully yours
*bow*
An Indian-American Hindu committed to non-violent thought/speech/action alarmed by the global explosion of radical Islam
Not nearly as bad as the virus I got from that public pay phone!
That shanker lasted a week!
It is easier to build strong children than to repair broken men. -Frederick Douglass
I'll believe that when they infect my refrigerator. Oops, looks like they already got that week-old bottle of milk...darn...
Have you read my blog lately?
I know, I know. It is confusing and complicated. I myself didn't believe this was a dupe until I read the 65th post saying it was. To be honest, even then I was a little skeptical. So to be sure I read the next 20 posts. Sure enough they all agreed with the other 65 people: The story is a dupe.
But for some reason, I still wasn't 100% convinced. To be super sure, I took a strole down to my crime lab and ran a few tests. The results?
The framerate on Quake 3 is better when using the Radeon 9800 Pro compared to using a Voodoo 2.
I realized that these benchmark tests were getting me nowhere, so I quickly ran outside and stopped a few people on the street. After explaining the situation on slashdot, 3 people quickly walked away, 2 spit on me, and the last guy asked me for change so he could take the bus. I gave him 35 cents.
At this point I started panicing, as time is running out. I ran back inside read and yesterday's penny-arcade. What an eye opener... it dawned on me: NO ONE FUCKING CARES IF THIS STORY IS A DUPE. JESUS CHRIST, LEAVE IT ALONE AND MOVE ONTO THE NEXT STORY.
That is all.
-Mark
Dovie'andi se tovya sagain.
is the one that does a DOS on /. every time it infects a new phone.
Religous speak to God. Insane are spoken to by God. When all shut up, one can finally hear Shostakovich in peace
Pretty often. This is /.
Slow down, cowboy! It has been 4 hours since you last posted. You must wait another few hours.
Is there some way we can work a random, irrelevant Microsoft bash into this discussion about viruses?
Is there enough time to put something in the "from the 'x' dept" underneath the title, but no time to look on the right or SCROLL DOWN! and see the original story?
;-)
Maybe the departments don't communicate well?
This space for rent, inquire within.
Well Christ fuck.... I'm unemployed right now so perhaps I should just write a better one! Ever since watching Lawnmower man I've had a penchant for seeing all the phone in the world ring at once.
Is there some group/agency I could call that would let me do this without arresting me and putting me in a box forever?
-------- I dig Mobile Phones
Well damn if that's not amazing.
My hat's off to these brave pioneers, searching for viruses in the wilds of the Yukon. (Or is it the Netherlands?) I imagine it must have been like the guy who found the first dinosaur skeleton. All these hecklers saying they don't exaist, then BOOM justification for all that research money spent digging through centuries of sediment.
No, now really. Isn't the proper term something more like "released," "written," or perhaps "invented?"
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