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The Threat of Mobile Malware is Bonkers

3 replies · 2,193 views · Started 23 September 2005

F-Secure previously documented a mobile phone virus that will infect the MMC card with a Windows PC virus that would infect if it was ever put in an MMC Card reader... and then quietly noting that while it appeared to be a proof of concept, it was the first serious malware. Now a Sophos senior tech consultant has a view on this announcement (reports Silicon.com), "...For the vendor to say that this is the first example of a serious mobile malware threat is plain bonkers."

I think we've covered most of my thoughts on the AV companies here before, call me deeply cynical but I don't believe them.

SwitchBlade wrote:I think we've covered most of my thoughts on the AV companies here before, call me deeply cynical but I don't believe them.

One of my friends has a friend who says he knows someone who believes that it's the anti-virus companies themselves who are helping create these proof of concept viruses.

8-)

Steve