Kaspersky, via PC Magazine, has graciously told the public to worry about mobile phone worms. According 
to Adam O’Donnell of ZDNet he doesn’t think you should be too concerned with mobile viruses just yet.
Hush up Adam! Mobile users should at least be aware of the facts and also safe guard them selves from any threat or exploit. Cell phones are small computers with high bandwidth that can run applications, download files and play music. Any device that has the capabilities to download third party apps, is just as vulnerable to being exposed to viruses and malware.
Facts:
Cell phones have less developers than desktop computers, and consequently malware developers. That’s what Mac has been bolstering for a long time as well as the Mac user population, but we all know what happened with that. Macs like PCs are just as vulnerable to malware, viruses and hackers. What makes you think the cell phone won’t be next? Adam?
MAC has barely 8% of the market share and in the last year there have been many reported attacks directed at the MAC OS. Cell phones make up a huge consumer base and that my friend is appetizing to any malware or virus developer.
Adam you should be more careful in what you say as it may bite you in the ass.
Great, one more thing to worry about. Good point though and I agree. It just makes sense that it would be possible. As always, thanks for the perspective.
Good point! It will be interesting to see what kind of protection for cell phones and the mobile internet will come about.
What century is Adam living in? We’d the threat of viruses in the 90’s. It’s just more so now due to smartphones. However, even smartphones can run anti-virus software.
Albeit not running all the time.
Adam might have had a bad day and forgot that anything that is connected to the internet and download files is vulnerable.
In the Philippines, try to get near in one of the Universities in Manila with your bluetooth on – you will be surprised what happens next –
I saw jitterbug advertising a virus protection software for cellphones for this exact purpose. Lets hope there’s no cellphone version of the trojan virus or a y2k scare.