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Old 01-30-2009
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Cell Phone AntiVirus?

Didn't see an appropriate forum for this post, so I placed it here.

As our smart phones are running mini-os systems and have email access,
Did you ever consider that a virus might be attached to an email?
After some time with Google, here's what I found (as of 1/30/2009):

excerpt:
This is why F-Secure – a Finnish company and the first to offer anti-virus protection technology for cellular phones – has decided to commission the first Italian on the road experiment aimed at verifying the potential weaknesses of Bluetooth devices and creating a mini-guide for a better understanding of Bluetooth technology, containing also indications on minimum precautions for safe use. Knowing the vulnerabilities of Bluetooth enabled devices is just as important as understanding the technology potential: on our part, with this work, we intend to take the first important step in this direction.

Smart phone virus'
http://www.cnet.com/topic-news/antiv...mbian-inc.html

Blackberry:
http://www.blackberryforums.com/afte...antivirus.html
BB Runs RIM OS and therefore can not be infected with windows virus'
However, it - like Mac OS - is just a matter of time.
Erricson
http://mac.rbytes.net/search/antivir...riccson-w700i/

For Palm OS
http://resources.bnet.com/topic/anti...d+palm+os.html

For Symbian OS
http://purnama-cellularphone.blogspo...3-symbian.html

http://www.cellphoneantivirus.com/

Last edited by jobeard; 02-02-2009 at 08:14 PM..
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Old 02-02-2009
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Interesting Jo, i use a BB (well its a works phone) so im safe for now, but all the same still a good point.
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Old 02-07-2009
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It's only a matter of time before every smart, web based, etc. phones starts getting viruses.

Technology is great, but, it comes with problems.
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Old 05-17-2009
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Viruses in our phones...? What's the world coming to when I can't even make a phone call without being at risk?
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