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Are Cell Viruses A Real Threat Now?

Posted by Zonk on from the reach-out-and-cough-someone dept.

Celpha writes "According to security firm F-Secure, a Trojan virus (Cardtrap.A) attacks Symbian mobile phone operating systems, attempting to infect users' PCs if they insert the phone's memory card into their computers. From the article: 'We expect to see more of this on the mobile front,' an F-Secure chief research officer said. Trend Micro issued a media alert stating it is a 'fully functioning' mobile threat. However, Antivirus firm Sophos slams the claim of this first example of a serious mobile malware threat as just plain bonkers."

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  1. Cell Viruses are the most common! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny
    I thought the computer term virus CAME from Cell Viruses. Now we are using Cell Virus to talk about cell PHONE viruses?

    yeah, my Motorola phone caught a cold, and it passed it along to my PC.

  2. Focus you energy. by OctoberSky · · Score: 5, Funny

    I am calling on all hackers and script kiddies to stop writing malicious code for cell phones and start writing codes that allow me to get a connection (place a call) without my carrier knowing.

    $39.99+ is far too much to pay per month. I want free calling. And I am not talking about cloning, I am talking about getting on Verizons antenna and placing calls from my phone without them seeing it, or seeing who owns the phone.

  3. Re:I'll give it 3 comments by welshwaterloo · · Score: 3, Funny
    Does anyone come here for serious discussion anymore?

    No, I came here for a good argument..

  4. Re:I'll give it 3 comments by $RANDOMLUSER · · Score: 2, Funny

    Sorry, this is abuse.

    --
    No folly is more costly than the folly of intolerant idealism. - Winston Churchill
  5. Cell "phones" by BarkLouder · · Score: 2, Funny

    Oh, cell "phones" . . . . . whew!

  6. Cell viruses? by ftoomch · · Score: 2, Funny

    I've always been threatened by cell viruses, in fact I have a bad cold at the moment.

    Surely it's cellphone viruses the article refers to guys.

  7. Dirty telephone by Aerion · · Score: 3, Funny

    What? Phone viruses?

    Damn, we shouldn't have sent all those telephone cleaners off in the B ark!