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The world's first mobile phone virus "in the wild" has spread to the
United States from its birthplace in the Philippines eight months ago, a security
research firm said Friday.
The virus, called Cabir, has spread slowly into 12 countries and marks the
beginning of the mobile phone virus era, which could one day disrupt the lives
of many of the world's 1.5 billion mobile phone users.
The biggest effect of the relatively innocuous virus, found in about 15 variations
so far, is draining mobile phone batteries, said Mikko Hypponen, director of
Finnish anti-virus research company F-Secure.
Hypponen said Cabir was found Monday in a technology gadgets store in Santa
Monica, when a passing techie spotted a telltale sign on the screen of a phone
in the store.
The mobile-virus threat will grow in the future as virus writers become more
sophisticated and phones standardize on technologies that make it easier for
viruses to spread across not just specific devices but the whole industry.
The danger is small at the moment, in part because of the range of hand-held
technologies. Also, many hand-held device makers have recently released new
mobile phones equipped with anti-virus software.
Unlike computer viruses that spread quickly around the world via the Internet,
Cabir spreads slowly because it travels only over short distances through a
wireless technology known as Bluetooth. It also requires a user to restart the
phone after it has been exposed for the virus to take hold
hey folks im not sure how reliable this source but im jsut giving the rest a heads up.....
http://www.ebalita.net/go/news/news.php?id=2266
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Posted: 2005-02-24 01:15:16
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Who in this forum has been infected by a cellphone virus? I've never seen anyone
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Posted: 2005-02-24 01:29:59
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Hsy! send me this virus! I want it
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Posted: 2005-02-24 02:36:34
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I guess I've already posted this ISSUE in another thread
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Posted: 2005-02-24 03:15:01
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On 2005-02-24 03:15:01, JN wrote:
I guess I've already posted this ISSUE in another thread
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Ya. We had a long discussion a while back on whether it is a real threat or not.
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Posted: 2005-02-24 06:42:00
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Why on earth do you want that virus @gardar? :-D
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Posted: 2005-02-24 07:12:22
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Posted: 2005-02-24 08:19:47
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I believe
this is the topic JN is reffering to so I think we might as well continue there.
Here is some more topics on viruses:
http://www.esato.com/board/viewtopic.php?topic=1621#post11521
http://www.esato.com/board/viewtopic.php?topic=2278#post18307
http://www.esato.com/board/viewtopic.php?topic=14621#post185036
http://www.esato.com/board/viewtopic.php?topic=18327#post240398
http://www.esato.com/board/viewtopic.php?topic=19029#post250537
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Posted: 2005-02-24 11:01:55
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