First worm for mobile phones

[MacDawg]

Gee, some people have too much time on their hands!
Is nothing sacred??

Will this spawn a whole new industry of virus protection for phones?
All the more reason for Apple to put out a phone

http://news.ft.com/servlet/ContentS...StoryFT/FullStory&c=StoryFT&cid=1087295122440

Edit: another link
http://www.dmeurope.com/default.asp?ArticleID=2053

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

 

[musicpyrite]

Gee, some people have too much time on their hands!
Is nothing sacred??

Will this spawn a whole new industry of virus protection for phones?
All the more reason for Apple to put out a phone

http://news.ft.com/servlet/ContentS...StoryFT/FullStory&c=StoryFT&cid=1087295122440

ahahaha, thats really interesing

just last moth, i worte and tested a real virus for my ti 83 silver, surprisingly it was not at all hard to do.

 

[MacDawg]

Apparently this is only for Bluetooth phones...

Guess Windows doesn't need a security update for this one

 

[kgarner]

I think I read that it also only affects phones using the Symbiam series 60 system, or something like that.

 

[gallagb]

what's next

Virus' in Bluetooth PDA?

silly virus makers...

gosh- can you imagine a virus in your bluetooth mouse or keyboard?
suddently your keyboard would be typing w/o u doing anything!

jeepers that'd be kinda amuzing

 

[MacDawg]

suddently your keyboard would be typing w/o u doing anything!

jeepers that'd be kinda amuzing

My wife swears that kind of stuff happens now...

Me: "what did you do now?"

Her: "honest, I didn't do anything, I don't know what happened, it just did it all by itself..."

 

[jsw]

Virus' in Bluetooth PDA?

silly virus makers...

gosh- can you imagine a virus in your bluetooth mouse or keyboard?
suddently your keyboard would be typing w/o u doing anything!

jeepers that'd be kinda amuzing

While I doubt your post was serious, rest assured that you needn't worry about mouse and keyboard viruses. There's no intelligence there, nothing to store programs, nothing to run them - beyond the simple stuff needed to make a connection and send things like "mouse button pressed" or "key 'S'" released.

Of course, sooner or later, mice and keyboards might very well start to get 'smart' (show different LCD character sets on the keys, etc.), so this might actually be an issue later on.

 

[MacDawg]

Of course Bluetooth can be associated with other viruses as well

http://www.wired.com/news/wireless/0,1382,62687,00.html

From the article:
"And now comes "toothing," where strangers on trains and buses and at bars and concerts hook up for clandestine sex by text messaging each other with their Bluetooth-enabled cell phones or PDAs."

I guess you can choose your Bluetooth virus

 

[big]

While I doubt your post was serious, rest assured that you needn't worry about mouse and keyboard viruses. There's no intelligence there, nothing to store programs, nothing to run them - beyond the simple stuff needed to make a connection and send things like "mouse button pressed" or "key 'S'" released.

sorry, but that is incorrect, we have documented proof of a virus transferring itself to the ROM in printers, certain keyboards, routers etc etc, even the boot ROM in some PC's, so that no matter what you did, it would always be there, unless you basically replaced the motherboard.

its scary stuff

 

[jsw]

sorry, but that is incorrect, we have documented proof of a virus transferring itself to the ROM in printers, certain keyboards, routers etc etc, even the boot ROM in some PC's, so that no matter what you did, it would always be there, unless you basically replaced the motherboard.

its scary stuff

How do you transfer a virus into Read Only Memory?

And where might I find the proof?

Routers, PCs, even maybe printers, I would believe - but RAM not ROM. Keyboards? I'd need proof.

Now, if you mean "inadvertently got burned into ROM at the factory", that makes some sense. But ROMs aren't going to be aquiring virii in the wild.

 

[mkrishnan]

Anyone happen to know if setting the phone to hidden / non-discoverable is sufficient to protect from this virus *looks nervously at his Nokia 3650*