A new problem appeared in the world of technology??the moblie phone viruses. The first viruses, called "Skulls" and "Dust", were discovered in July, 2004. compared to comupter viruses, these were harmless, but a virus could be spread across a mobile network.
As mobile phone technology develops rapidly, so do the viruses and the people who creat them. Now many people use "pocket computers", such as PDAs and "smart phones". These can receive multimedia messages in different forms, like phtos, videos, and music. The most recent virus, "Cabir", is spread by opening these kinds of multimedia messages. This virus gets into the mobile phone or PDA and then makes it stop working. In only six months, the virus has spread to almost 20 countries acoss the world??that shows that it could easily get into millions of phones and PDAS.
There are some viruses in illegal copies of games. These viruses takes personal information that is stored on someone's phone and use it to make money for the people who sent the virus.
Sometimes, the viruses have a programme that makes expensive phone calls. The results is very high phone bill for the victim.
In response to this new threat, many new models of mobile phones and PDAs are now appearing in stores with anti-virus software on them, just like computers.
Nov 15, 2007 @ 01:47:17
