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Cellular Phone Forum / Providers / ATT Wireless / September 2007Phones on the internet
Is anyone running anti- Virus/Spyware on your cellphone?? You get on the internet browse get e-mail with NO protection. It is just a mater of time till someone spreads one. > Is anyone running anti- Virus/Spyware on your cellphone?? > You get on the internet browse get e-mail with NO protection. It is just a > mater of time till someone spreads one. First, someone has to WRITE one. For the same reason you can't run PC software on your phone (different processor and OS) you can't run a PC virus on your phone either. While "proof-of-concept" virii have been writen for RIM, Palm, WinMo and Symbian phones no phone virii I'm aware of have ever been released into the "wild." Since your phone's OS is in ROM rather than disk-based, what harm could a phone virus do that a simple factory reset wouldn't eliminate anyway?  Signature"I don't need my cell phone to play video games or take pictures or double as a Walkie-Talkie; I just need it to work. Thanks for all the bells and whistles, but I could communicate better with ACTUAL bells and whistles." -Bill Maher 9/25/2003 > Is anyone running anti- Virus/Spyware on your cellphone?? > You get on the internet browse get e-mail with NO protection. It is > just a mater of time till someone spreads one. I think it has already happened. My original E815 started resetting while watching MobiTV on Alltel. Then, the last time I heard from it, it rebooted to "Bootloader USB Init", I suppose where it goes looking for its operating system it didn't find. Alltel sent me a replacment E815, complete with return postage label for the old one. Others have had similar problems I've been told by Alltel reps. Larry SignatureSearch youtube for "Depleted Uranium" The ultimate dirty bomb...... > > Is anyone running anti- Virus/Spyware on your cellphone?? > > You get on the internet browse get e-mail with NO protection. It is [quoted text clipped - 4 lines] > rebooted to "Bootloader USB Init", I suppose where it goes looking for its > operating system it didn't find. I'll bet that software makers secretly love the age of the computer virus. Now everyone suspects "malware" instead of firmware and software bugs! There's a guy on the Pocket PC NGs right now convinced a "virus" is stopping his PPC phone from synching with his desktop despite the fact his AV sofware "can't find any virus" and despite the numerous problems folks have with the flakey Activesync software for PPCs! > Alltel sent me a replacment E815, > complete with return postage label for the old one. Others have had > similar problems I've been told by Alltel reps. Which makes "serious firmware bug" sound far more plausible than "mysterious virus that only strikes Alltel E815s watching TV." Signature"I don't need my cell phone to play video games or take pictures or double as a Walkie-Talkie; I just need it to work. Thanks for all the bells and whistles, but I could communicate better with ACTUAL bells and whistles." -Bill Maher 9/25/2003 |
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