Are Cell Viruses A Real Threat Now?

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."

Comments

Heh

[Walkiry]

'We expect to see more of this on the mobile front,'

I bet you do, as you are probably already hard at work to make it happen.

Cell Phones

[certel]

Everyone knew this was coming. Anything that has any type of software code will eventually be exploited or tried to be exploited at some point.

Simplicity is the key to beating this easily...

[Anonymous Coward]

Just buy a damn PHONE. You know. Those things that used to just go ring-ring, and you pick it up and talk on it and maybe keep an address book on? I still use a Motorola V60 flip phone. No windows/PalmOS/WinOS/WinCE/PocketPC/2003 crap to worry about. Ring tones? No thanks. I'm not 13 anymore, trying to make some sort of 17-second "statement" to the crowd around my ringing phone. Sometimes simplicity is the key. K.I.S.S. metheodology is still around for a reason.

Re:You better believe it's a threat.

[black mariah]

My phone was a freebie about four years ago when I signed up, and still has way more features than I ever want or need.

I highlighted the key words there for you. You may not use those features, but someone does, and probably on a very regular basis.

I don't need it to be a low quality digital camera, hard-to-use PDA, sub-standard web browser, trivial calculator, poor-capacity MP3 player, pathetically quiet alarm clock, and all the other junk. Nor do I need it to run some super-complicated operating system that's ripe for attacking.

So you'd rather carry around a camera, a PDA, a calculator, an MP3 player, an alarm clock, and all the other junk instead of having it all in one convenient package? I hope you have a lot of pockets...