Mobile malware set to rise

User Comments: 5

1. December 21, 2005 9:32 AM
   Rage_3K_Moiz said:
   It was but obvious. As PCs become more secure, hackers turn elsewhere to vent their frustration and anger. Mobile phones are the next best target due to their excellent inter-connectivity and relatively no form of virus protection. A virus can easily be spread in a matter of seconds.
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2. December 21, 2005 10:38 AM
   smtkr said:
   I wonder how many different operating systems exist on phones. It doesn't sound like this will run as wild as windows malware
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3. December 21, 2005 1:25 PM
   mentaljedi said:
   What these hackers pray every night is that Microsoft will realse an OS on phones.
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4. December 21, 2005 2:53 PM
   PanicX said:
   [b]Originally posted by mentaljedi:[/b][quote]What these hackers pray every night is that Microsoft will realse an OS on phones.[/quote]They've had one out for quite some time, Windows Mobile OS, and its actually quite nice compared to Palm OS.The problem with mobile phone virus's is actually getting a phone to execute code. Email is by far the most common virus proliferation method and most mobiles don't have it. The mobiles that do often don't support attachments, and those that do support attachments, the attachments need to be executable to the phone's OS and launched by the user.
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5. December 22, 2005 1:28 AM
   Mictlantecuhtli said:
   The more features phones (or should they be called PDAs now?) will get, the more chances for security holes.For example, some phones have BlueTooth support enabled by default, and at least earlier it was trivial to get phonebooks and other data from them without the owner noticing anything.
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