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First Mobile Phone Virus Nears 2nd Birthday
An anonymous reader writes "ZDNet is reporting that the first mobile phone virus is almost 2 years old. F-Secure's chief research officer Mikko Hyppönen claims that although there are now over 200 mobile phone viruses the problem is unlikely to get as bad as it has with PCs. 'The difference is that PC viruses were first found in 1986 and mobile phone viruses were found in 2004... So we are living in the equivalent of 1988 but in 1988 Microsoft or hardware manufacturers were not doing anything about viruses ... In the mobile phone world, all the mobile phone manufacturers are working on the problem as are the phone operating system manufacturers, like Symbian, Microsoft and Palm. Operators are on top of this.'"
If we listen to you, there are no virii on other OSes than Microsoft Windows... right...
.vbs file or an unknown incoming bluetooth file transfer, it's your personal knowlege that is gonna be the key factor.
Is this self-persuation or lack of knowledge ?
The only real thing that makes YOU susceptible to get a virus is YOU.
When you get a
BTW, what do you mean by a "decent O/S" ?
Like OpenBSD is the greatest OS for running games...