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  • From: "Alan MacHett" <machett AT ibiblio.org>
  • To: internetworkers AT lists.ibiblio.org
  • Subject: [internetworkers] Cell Phone Virus
  • Date: Wed, 16 Jun 2004 14:03:25 -0400 (EDT)

So it begins...

One of these days we'll have to worry about whether the refrigerator or
the car has a virus.

http://money.cnn.com/2004/06/16/technology/virus_phones.reut/index.htm

<excerpt>
First cell phone virus not lethal, yet

Virus writers show off what could be the world's first worm for advanced
mobile phones.
June 16, 2004: 7:10 AM EDT

AMSTERDAM, Netherlands (Reuters) - A group of underground virus writers
has showed off what is believed to be the world's first worm that can
spread on advanced mobile phones, but security software companies say the
virus has no malicious code attached. The worm, named Cabir, was sent to
security software firms Kapersky Lab of Russia and U.S.-based Symantec by
a member of 29a, a group of virus writers from the Czech Republic and
Slovakia who pride themselves in creating "proof-of-concept malicious
viruses," Kapersky Labs spokesman Denis Zenkin said.

"This is the very first version of a network worm which propagates via
mobile phones," he said Wednesday.

The worm is designed to work in smart phones running on Symbian and Series
60 software, Symantec said on its Web site.
</excerpt>

-Alan





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