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First Windows CE Virus
Think about it... Mobile phones with viruses... PDAs... Television sets? Impossible? Of course not.
"The first known virus for the Windows CE operating system has been developed and sent to anti-virus companies."
"The virus, known as WinCE4.Dust, does no direct damage to the system. When it's executed, according to descriptions from several anti-virus companies, it asks, "Dear User, am I allowed to spread?" Symantec notes that if the user responds affirmatively, "it will attempt to append itself to all non-infected EXE files in the directory which it is currently running."
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User Comments (2)
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Strakian
on July 20, 2004 6:07 AM |
well at least it's polite |
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Rick
on July 20, 2004 10:36 AM |
I bet there is some real possibilities here for devastating PDA viruses.Since the Pocket PC and Palm operating systems don't offer the user much control, it would be very hard to repair a serious virus... I think? |
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