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["Shea Tisdale" <shea AT sheatisdale.com>]

Sorry, but these aren't the first cell phone viri.

In 2000 a virus for cell phones called Timofon was released in Spain.
http://news.com.com/2100-1023-241489.html?legacy=cnet

And some have been "leathal" - shutting down the phones or otherwise
disbling them - This happened in May of 2003 in the US and earlier in
Europe.

http://www.net-security.org/news.php?id=2555

And there has also been a virus that was transmitted solely through mobile
networks and cell phones.  In Japan, the country's popular I-Mode wireless
service has been the recipient of attacks that caused the phones to make
calls to Tokyo's version of 911.

http://www.signonsandiego.com/news/computing/personaltech/20040119-9999_mz1b
19phone.html

> -----Original Message-----
> From: internetworkers-bounces AT lists.ibiblio.org [mailto:internetworkers-
> bounces AT lists.ibiblio.org] On Behalf Of Alan MacHett
> Sent: Wednesday, June 16, 2004 2:03 PM
> To: internetworkers AT lists.ibiblio.org
> Subject: [internetworkers] Cell Phone Virus
> 
> 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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