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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. Holy Shit! by Luscious868 · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Deja fucking Vu .... and while I'm at it ... Go Pistons!

  2. Re:I don't get it... by Grey+Ninja · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Try posting a story about Firefox 0.9 being out today. It has been amazing me all day that nobody has submitted a story yet.

    I would... but I am a little busy right now.

  3. Next dupe at 11:54PM ... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Offtopic
    The FIRST article titled "Worm Developed for Nokia Series-60 Phones" was posted by CmdrTaco on Tuesday June 15, @10:04AM.


    The SECOND article (this one) titled "First Mobile Phone Virus Discovered" was posted by Michael on Tuesday June 15, @04:59PM.


    So we would expect the next one at 11:54PM ...


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  4. Dammit, I have mod points.... by 6Yankee · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    ...and I still can't mod that twit Michael -5, Redundant. Gonna sit this lot out, I think.

  5. Modded down because ... ? by dunng808 · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Is it just the School's Out effect? Who would waste moderator points modding down the first five posters, all pointing out that this is a dupe. The point is, it is. So I figure, it's gotta be those millions of school boys and school girls running barefoot through the Slashdot grass, some of whom, having been blessed by the random mod fairie, are modding for the very first time. Or maybe they're just no good troublemakers.

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