Bluetooth Ads Prompt Virus Concerns
A newly developed Bluetooth advertising scheme could make mobile phone viruses more commonplace by teaching users bad habits, I.T. security experts said today.
The technique, known as Bluestreaming, has been pioneered by British firm Filter UK. It involves beaming pictures and music direct to people's mobile phones.
The company had run a pilot with six sites in London railway stations and in a two-week period detected 87,000 phones capable of receiving the material, of which 17 percent accepted the download.
