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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.
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 is why I love my Nokia 3410. It's too simple to get easily hacked.
Sometimes progress is not an advantage.
SCREW THE ADS! http://adblock.mozdev.org/ Proud user of teh Fox of Fire - Registered Linux User #289618
this virus has an unknown effect: /. over and over! ;)
it submits stories to
Because embarrassments like this only give ammunition to the trolls.
Quick, close port 80!
Obliteracy: Words with explosions
This duplicate story gets accepted and posted, while my story about Akamai claiming they got attacked gets rejected... sigh...
Hmmm.
And this is after subscribers email Dupe! notices!
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
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
So... adding a little danger to the thrills of Unprotected Toothing...
It's a small world and it smells funny; I'd buy another if it wasn't for the money; Take back what I paid (SoM)
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).
Exercise your right not to vote. thinkoutside.org
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.
Bluetooth being insecure isn't exactly news (or repeated news, for that matter). A lot of the first generation blue tooth phones had Bluetooth on by default. A friend of mine used to pull all sorts of malicious crap with a Nokia N-Gage. He would just sit in a busy mall hacking away at anyone who sits in the food court. If you have a blue tooth phone with no off setting get a replacement. ;)
Not as off-topic as you thought, eh?
I survived the Dick Cheney Presidency 7 to 9 AM 7-21-07
Duplicate posts by editor, according to a quick unscientific search on Google (site:slashdot.org dupe "posted by $name"):
timothy - 114
michael - 104
CmdrTaco - 80
Hemos - 32
CowboyNeal - 22
pudge - 12
If your comment title says 'Re: Foo', I'm not likely to read it.
And yes... 85% of sms spam will come from infected windows cellphones.
...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?
"How to Do Nothing," kids activities, back in print!
Doctors don't diagnose themselves, Hairdressers don't cut their own hair, bus drivers take the car to work, the people at the benefits office got jobs. Surely reporters not reading their own stories is nothing to be suprised about. /me opens the morning newspaper and counts the spelling errors and dupe posts in a paid for newspaper. Neither do editors in "respectable" news outlets it seems.
MMO Quests are like orgasms:
You may solo them, I prefer them in a group.