first mobile phone virus?

[craftygrrl]

I was wondering when this was going to happen...

http://www.news.com.au/common/story_page/0...0%255E2,00.html

[russellc]

If the virus succeeds in penetrating the phone, it writes the inscription 'Caribe' on the screen and is then activated every time that the phone is turned on.

at least they tell you directly that you have a virus, instead of in some annoying indirect way which makes you wonder if you have a virus or not (irritating lag, random freezing)

It is able to scan for phones that are also using the Bluetooth technology and is able to send a copy of itself to the first handset that it finds.

that'd suck terribly. it'd spread so fast if you just stand in a busy area

[Lasha]

Damn man! That really sucks! I own a Nokia N-Gage from Nokia which runs on Symbian OS, and I am soon getting the Nokia N-Gage QD which is also Symbian OS powered. Good thing that I barely ever use my bluetooth capability...yet, atleast. Soon, I'll be forced to use it to play wirelessly with other people but, almost no one has an N-Gage, so I'm good. Although, sometimes I'll be using it to connect the N-Gage to my PC for various reasons. I wonder if mobile software developers will now develop Mobile Anti-Virus software that's always updated by your phone connection service.

[area91]

That sucks ass.

[Samoa]

Good thing I only have a sweet tooth. :D

[blueshirt]

Wow imagine having Norton Antivirus on your cellphone.

[null_]

Thank god I don't have a cell phone.. yet. :|

[Cube]

so what, alot of people dont even have symbian phones

[colordeficiency]

It should be

so what, alot of people dont even turn on their bluetooth; e.g, me