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06-16-2004, 04:40 PM
18:26 15 June 04
NewScientist.com news service
The first virus to spread from one cell phone to another has been created, the Russian anti-virus software vendor Kaspersky Labs announced on Tuesday.
Cabir has no malicious capabilities and affects only a small slice of "smart" phones that run on both the sophisticated Symbian operating system and have a Bluetooth connection. It has been written by a group called 29a.
The virus is an "interesting milestone", says Graham Cluley, a consultant at the anti-virus software vendor Sophos in Oxford, UK, because it is the first virus to spread through a cell phone network.
In 2000, the virus Timifonica forced infected PCs to send text messages to phones. "But this is the first virus to spread from phone to phone," says Cluley.
Experts say the virus should not alarm the public because it has been circulated by researchers in a controlled laboratory setting only. There are no known cases of it "in the wild".
whole report >> http://www.newscientist.com/news/news.jsp?id=ns99995111
NewScientist.com news service
The first virus to spread from one cell phone to another has been created, the Russian anti-virus software vendor Kaspersky Labs announced on Tuesday.
Cabir has no malicious capabilities and affects only a small slice of "smart" phones that run on both the sophisticated Symbian operating system and have a Bluetooth connection. It has been written by a group called 29a.
The virus is an "interesting milestone", says Graham Cluley, a consultant at the anti-virus software vendor Sophos in Oxford, UK, because it is the first virus to spread through a cell phone network.
In 2000, the virus Timifonica forced infected PCs to send text messages to phones. "But this is the first virus to spread from phone to phone," says Cluley.
Experts say the virus should not alarm the public because it has been circulated by researchers in a controlled laboratory setting only. There are no known cases of it "in the wild".
whole report >> http://www.newscientist.com/news/news.jsp?id=ns99995111