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Anti-Virus Protection For Your Cell Phone
spect3r writes "BBC Tech reports that F-Secure, a Finnish security firm has created a software program to combat the increasing number of viruses that manage their way into cell phones. Although not as robust as your mainstream virus scanners for the PC, the software promises to protect bluetooth enabled handsets (the most vulnerable type) from most of the current types of virus software, such as Cabir or Commwarrior. F-Secure said that it's boxed anti-virus software for mobiles will be in the shops and available online from 5 September." From the article: "Mobile viruses such as Cabir and Commwarrior can spread via the Bluetooth short range radio system found on many smart phones. Commwarrior can also spread via multimedia messaging systems. Most of the mobile phone viruses target handsets that use the Symbian operating system. Infection can be avoided by turning off Bluetooth on smart phones. "
"Is there anything wrong with a cell phone that's just a phone? All I want to do is make calls."
For fuck's sake, when will these trolls not be modded up anymore? If you want to make calls only, then get a simple phone, retard. And no, I refuse to be civil towards these posters anymore. Their arguments are refuted every single time, and they keep being modded up.
You are no better than the idiot teenagers who think stupid ringtones are the shit. You're just at the other end of the spectrum. You're trying to sound cool by putting down something you don't understand. Luddites of the worst kind. What the hell are you doing on slashdot?
Now that I'm done ranting, I'd just like to note that I, for one, *would* like a phone that can do SSH, thank you very much.
My Sig: SEGV
I wish mine had a 150 decibel ringer