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Cell Phone Virus Threat Overblown
An anonymous reader writes "Symantec has come under fire for claiming that 73 percent of smart phone users are aware of viruses and attacks aimed at their handsets. Wireless company WDSGlobal described this as a scaremongering tactic, with its spokesman saying: 'If you look at the viruses out there, currently there are about 14 core viruses, the majority of which are fairly benign. They are mostly developed as "proof of concept" to warn manufacturers of handsets and operating systems or the antivirus industry about potential vulnerabilities.' But Bruce Schneier, chief technology officer at Counterpane Internet Security, believes mobile viruses and attacks shouldn't be discounted altogether, though he believes they aren't currently registering on any significant scale."
On the heterosexual AIDS "epidemic."
"Oh sure, they're just dropping like flys!"
Just like the looming Mac virus epidemic. Weird how when updating antivirus definitions, I see that Symantec regularly updates their Mac antivirus definitions. From what? One wonders if Symantec lives in fear of the Windows platform being eclipsed by a Unix type (BSD, Linux) platform on the desktop.
This guy is way out there
"you know, the plural of virus is NOT virii, it's viruses."
You know, there was a little more to that story than the proper use of the word viruses, right?
"Derp de derp."