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First Mobile Phone Virus Discovered

Posted by michael on from the uh-oh dept.

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!"

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  1. why? oh why? WHY!? by teamhasnoi · · Score: 4, Insightful
    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?

    And this is after subscribers email Dupe! notices!

  2. Re:Could have been worse... by cynicalmoose · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Actually it's not that. The first cell phone virus would have happened ages ago if 90% of cell phones used the same architecture and OS. Whatever system you give that dominance, it will always have people exploiting it (or poor configuration thereof).

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  3. Re:For the love of god check the front page by Isldeur · · Score: 5, Insightful


    You really have to wonder when the editors of slashdot consistently show that they themselves don't read slashdot. Don't you?

  4. It's a PHONE, dammit... by dpbsmith · · Score: 5, Insightful

    ...why, oh, why, oh WHY does everything that ought to be a simple, functional device end up as a bloated mass of featuritis with a clunky user interface, a 250-page manual... and the ability to accept and automatically execute executable content?

    There is no rationale reason whatsoever why a cell phone needs to be susceptible to viruses.

    What next? Digital cameras that are capable of updating their firmware by photographing the screen of the vendor's website... that will be infested by virus code which somebody smuggles onto the Jumbotron screen at a football game?

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