First Mobile Phone Virus Nears 2nd Birthday 101
An anonymous reader writes "ZDNet is reporting that the first mobile phone virus is almost 2 years old. F-Secure's chief research officer Mikko Hyppönen claims that although there are now over 200 mobile phone viruses the problem is unlikely to get as bad as it has with PCs. 'The difference is that PC viruses were first found in 1986 and mobile phone viruses were found in 2004... So we are living in the equivalent of 1988 but in 1988 Microsoft or hardware manufacturers were not doing anything about viruses ... In the mobile phone world, all the mobile phone manufacturers are working on the problem as are the phone operating system manufacturers, like Symbian, Microsoft and Palm. Operators are on top of this.'"
Disagree all you like, doesn't make it true (Score:3, Interesting)
http://vil.nai.com/vil/content/v_1169.htm [nai.com]
Stoned
Type
Virus
SubType
Boot
Discovery Date
02/01/1988
Was at F-Secure event today (Score:1, Interesting)
Ground control to Major Tom (Score:4, Interesting)
Re:Easy way to prevent viruses (Score:2, Interesting)
I think we need to take a more serious look at this problem. In the 70's and 80's, people laughed off the possibility of threats like these. Now, we spend millions of dollars trying to keep control over these growing problems. Hopefully we can take what we've learned with past threats and how they've evolved to help stop the flow across this new frontier... or at least slow them down. However, since many of these "smart" phones are already running versions of Windows, are we already doomed...?
1986? (Score:3, Interesting)