12-22-2005, 08:00 AM
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Developer & Designer, News Editor Emeritus
Join Date: Aug 2006
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McAfee: 2006 - Attack of the Mobile Malware
"More Mobile Attacks - A Serious Cause for Concern: Mobile malware was first sighted in June 2004 when a group of professional virus writers created the first proof-of-concept virus for smartphones demonstrating that malicious code could be created for Symbian operating systems. Soon after, 'Duts' was released the first virus for Pocket PC Systems and the first file infector for smartphones. Since then, several mobile Trojans have appeared, resulting in an alarming growth of mobile malware. McAfee AVERT Labs expects to see a significant rise in the number of global mobile threats in 2006. The use of smartphone technology has played a pivotal role in the threat's transition from multifunction, semi-stationary PCs to palm-sized "wearable" devices. And as a result of the increased connectivity of smartphones, McAfee AVERT Labs expects these threats to make a quick transition to converged devices."
So they say 2006 will be one of mobile malware's 'deadliest' years on record - but hang on, don't they say that every year?  Read this report from McAfee and see if you agree with them. Will existing antivirus programs for the Pocket PC finally have a purpose? Are i-mate and CA getting ready to utter those four magical words, "we told you so"? You decide.
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12-22-2005, 08:45 AM
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Thinker
Join Date: Dec 2006
Posts: 450
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Meh, the same story every year. "[insert current year here] will be a big boom of mobile viruses! Buy McAfee Antivirus for Pocket PC now!"...
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12-22-2005, 09:49 AM
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Intellectual
Join Date: Jun 2005
Posts: 120
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I just cant imagine anyone investing the time and effort to create a mobile platform virus\worm. So many people back up their devices and we all know how fast and easy it is to do a hard reset or reload a ROM.
System files are in ROM and the only thing thats vulnerable would be the My Documents folder and storage card contents. Alright. The storage card worries me a little
As much as I would like to see some mobile viruses I think I will be disappointed for years to come.
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12-22-2005, 09:50 AM
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Ponderer
Join Date: Aug 2004
Posts: 70
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:roll:
Cue the n00bs wanting to know the 'best AV solution'.
Common sense!
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12-22-2005, 10:02 AM
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Intellectual
Join Date: Jun 2005
Posts: 120
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Quote:
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Originally Posted by Ward
Common sense!
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Your right. Common sense is the best defense, hands down.
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12-22-2005, 12:41 PM
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Philosopher
Join Date: Jan 2003
Posts: 539
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"2006 will see a shortage in water!
and i'm glad to inform you that you can now purchase my special water for only 29.99 !!!"
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12-22-2005, 02:17 PM
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Banned
Join Date: Dec 2007
Posts: 372
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go get a free mobile AV just to spite them.
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12-22-2005, 02:57 PM
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Mystic
Join Date: Aug 2006
Posts: 1,520
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Originally Posted by MarcFou
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Originally Posted by Ward
Common sense!
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Your right. Common sense is the best defense, hands down. |
If by common sense do you mean don't install the A_Virus_4_U.cab or don't run the Your_PDA_As_A_PAPERWEIGHT.exe on your PDA?
I agree, that "common sense" is the best front line of defense, but virus writer's get craftier and dirtier as time goes on.
How many of us power users are constantly trying out new and unknow applications that some one posted about?
I'm not an advocate of the panic tactics by the AV companies and probably wont install any such software until I know someone who was bit, but who knows what vulnerabilities the OS and/or my 3rd party apps have waiting for someone to exploit.
just a thought
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12-22-2005, 03:27 PM
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Magi
Join Date: Sep 2005
Posts: 2,341
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Re: McAfee: 2006 - Attack of the Mobile Malware
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Originally Posted by Darius Wey
McAfee AVERT Labs expects to see a significant rise in the number of global mobile threats in 2006.
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Why? Did they hire more virus writers?....Oh sorry "proof of concept writers"
Scumbags!
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12-22-2005, 03:40 PM
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Sage
Join Date: Aug 2004
Posts: 718
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Hackers don't bother to write attacks for PDA's for the same reason they attack Windows and not Linux or Mac - installed units. They are not going to bother with a small base of users of PDA's, Linux and Mac. They want fame by hitting as many machines as they can and only Windows desktop is worth their time. If virus protection was free like in the old days I'd install something. But it's just not that big a risk on a PDA to actually pay for it.
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