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First Mobile Phone Virus Discovered
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michael
on Tue Jun 15, 2004 03:59 PM
from the uh-oh dept.
from the uh-oh dept.
CHaN_316 writes "News.com.au is running an article about the First Mobile Phone Virus Discovered. The virus 'called Cabir - appears to have been developed by an international group specialising in creating viruses which try to show "that no technology is reliable and safe from their attacks"... until now it has had no harmful effect.' Cabir infects the Symbian operating system, and spreads via bluetooth. Great... lets see when we can download the world's first mobile phone anti-virus!"
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Ring!...Ring!.... (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Ring!...Ring!.... (Score:5, Funny)
(Last Journal: Thursday April 29 2004, @09:24PM)
Slashdot, hello. Yes he is, hold on. CmdrTaco, it's for you. It's God. He says we should have girls at Slashdot.
spam (Score:4, Insightful)
(http://www.n0dez.com/)
dupe... (Score:5, Funny)
Re:dupe... (Score:4, Funny)
(Last Journal: Thursday April 29 2004, @09:24PM)
Hey, go easy on the editors - it's not their fault. Michael obviously has a Nokia Series-60 phone which has been infected. It's a variant and posts duplicate story submissions to slashdot. I've already tried to alert Sophos. They spat in my face and called me a liar.
Re:dupe... (Score:5, Funny)
(http://www.buffmuthers.com/)
Re:dupe... (Score:5, Funny)
(http://www.gamerpride.com/ | Last Journal: Thursday June 22 2006, @10:56AM)
Re:dupe... (Score:5, Funny)
(http://members.surfeu.fi/kklaine/primebear.html | Last Journal: Tuesday March 15 2005, @01:16PM)
Re:Important question (Score:4, Funny)
(http://www.openspeech.org/ | Last Journal: Thursday July 29 2004, @02:30PM)
Not as off-topic as you thought, eh?
High scores (Score:5, Interesting)
(http://po-ru.com/)
timothy - 114
michael - 104
CmdrTaco - 80
Hemos - 32
CowboyNeal - 22
pudge - 12
say it with me now... (Score:5, Funny)
(http://apl.jhu.edu/~mekkab | Last Journal: Tuesday January 30 2007, @03:45PM)
{ring ring}
You've been haxx0red!
Re:say it with me now... (Score:5, Funny)
Guy with glasses: "C4N j00 h4> m3 n0\/\/? g00d, WTF!!!1111
Re:Could have been worse... (Score:5, Insightful)
(http://www.thinkoutside.org/)
I can see it now (Score:5, Funny)
(Last Journal: Tuesday April 24 2007, @07:35PM)
spreads via bluetooth huh.... (Score:5, Funny)
Kinda like a real virus.
Re:spreads via bluetooth huh.... (Score:4, Informative)
Good reason to turn off your phone on the airplane :-).
Nokia 3410 anyone? (Score:5, Interesting)
(Last Journal: Monday February 16 2004, @03:55PM)
Sometimes progress is not an advantage.
maybe... (Score:5, Funny)
it submits stories to
For the love of god check the front page (Score:5, Informative)
(Last Journal: Monday May 31 2004, @01:42AM)
Re:For the love of god check the front page (Score:5, Insightful)
You really have to wonder when the editors of slashdot consistently show that they themselves don't read slashdot. Don't you?
So? (Score:4, Insightful)
(Last Journal: Friday August 17, @05:34AM)
Dupe - No one reads DaddyPants email? (Score:3, Interesting)
I saw this was a dupe when it was "In The Mysterious Future" and emailed daddypants, but it *STILL* got posted. WTF??
Waitaminnut-- (Score:5, Funny)
(http://www.snowplow.org/tom/)
Quick, close port 80!
I don't get it... (Score:4, Interesting)
(Last Journal: Friday June 18 2004, @11:45AM)
why? oh why? WHY!? (Score:5, Insightful)
(http://www.theschmoejoes.com/ | Last Journal: Saturday June 19 2004, @02:56PM)
And this is after subscribers email Dupe! notices!
Fools (Score:4, Funny)
(Last Journal: Wednesday November 21, @11:15AM)
Here's the dupe update (Score:5, Funny)
(http://slashdot.org/~GillBates0 | Last Journal: Tuesday July 10, @04:36PM)
Update: 06/15 15:15 GMT by M [slashdot.org]: You may remember we mentioned this earlier today [slashdot.org].
Helpfully yours
*bow*
This goes along with a BBC story... (Score:5, Interesting)
(http://slashdot.org/ | Last Journal: Saturday November 03, @04:58AM)
So... adding a little danger to the thrills of Unprotected Toothing...
Cell phone virus? (Score:5, Funny)
(Last Journal: Sunday September 09, @09:22AM)
That shanker lasted a week!
Infect *this* (Score:5, Funny)
(http://www.xpriori.com/ | Last Journal: Friday June 18 2004, @04:18PM)
I'll believe that when they infect my refrigerator. Oops, looks like they already got that week-old bottle of milk...darn...
I got an idea!!! (Score:5, Funny)
(Last Journal: Wednesday April 21 2004, @03:51PM)
I know, I know. It is confusing and complicated. I myself didn't believe this was a dupe until I read the 65th post saying it was. To be honest, even then I was a little skeptical. So to be sure I read the next 20 posts. Sure enough they all agreed with the other 65 people: The story is a dupe.
But for some reason, I still wasn't 100% convinced. To be super sure, I took a strole down to my crime lab and ran a few tests. The results?
The framerate on Quake 3 is better when using the Radeon 9800 Pro compared to using a Voodoo 2.
I realized that these benchmark tests were getting me nowhere, so I quickly ran outside and stopped a few people on the street. After explaining the situation on slashdot, 3 people quickly walked away, 2 spit on me, and the last guy asked me for change so he could take the bus. I gave him 35 cents.
At this point I started panicing, as time is running out. I ran back inside read and yesterday's penny-arcade. What an eye opener... it dawned on me: NO ONE FUCKING CARES IF THIS STORY IS A DUPE. JESUS CHRIST, LEAVE IT ALONE AND MOVE ONTO THE NEXT STORY.
That is all.
Bluetooth vulnerabilities (Score:4, Informative)
(http://www.reflexmachine.net/)
It's a PHONE, dammit... (Score:5, Insightful)
(http://www.dpbsmith.com/)
There is no rationale reason whatsoever why a cell phone needs to be susceptible to viruses.
What next? Digital cameras that are capable of updating their firmware by photographing the screen of the vendor's website... that will be infested by virus code which somebody smuggles onto the Jumbotron screen at a football game?
Discovered? (Score:3, Funny)
(http://dethbunny.livejournal.com/ | Last Journal: Monday September 10 2001, @03:50PM)
My hat's off to these brave pioneers, searching for viruses in the wilds of the Yukon. (Or is it the Netherlands?) I imagine it must have been like the guy who found the first dinosaur skeleton. All these hecklers saying they don't exaist, then BOOM justification for all that research money spent digging through centuries of sediment.
No, now really. Isn't the proper term something more like "released," "written," or perhaps "invented?"