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Mobile Game Trojan Calls the South Pole

Posted by kdawson on from the if-a-penguin-answers dept.

UgLyPuNk writes with an excerpt from Gamepron.com: "Freeware games can actually cost you more money than their pay-to-play cousins, as mobile gamers in the UK have learned. A 'booby-trapped' version of a popular Windows Mobile game has been sneakily spending their money while they sleep – by dialing phone numbers in the Antarctic behind their backs."

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  1. Re:Wait I'm confused by EvanED · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    So I've been reading Slashdot for a couple of years now and I'm thoroughly confused about how we decide which stories deserve the community's notice.

    What happens is kwadson looks at the story, and if it's anti-MS, he posts it. (This is not a complete description of the process.)

    (And to be fair, this story is much less flamebait than some of the FUD that he's put on the front page.)

  2. Re:Did penguins answer ? by DreadPirateShawn · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    "Never gonna give you up, never gonna let you down, never gonna run around and desert you..."