Worm ready to wriggle into smart phones

In what must have been good news for their business, antivirus companies on Monday raced to decipher the workings of the first worm to target smart phones, while saying that the current incarnation of the program poses little threat, according to News.com

"The worm program, dubbed Cabir by Russian antivirus company Kaspersky, apparently uses the Bluetooth short-range wireless feature of smart phones that run the Symbian operating system to detect other Symbian phones, and then transfers itself to the new host as a package file."

Antivirus companies have not found any evidence that the program is infecting smart phones outside of those limited test cases".

emily | 8:11 AM | Spam, Viruses and Hoaxes |
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