Soon all will need antivirus software for phones
MOBILE phone users will soon be using antivirus software in their phones. While mobile phone viruses are still relatively new, infrequent and largely confined to smart phones that run the Symbian operating system, it will eventually be a common precaution, according to F-Secure Corp chief researcher Mikko Hypponen.
Hypponen, who was in town as a speaker at HITBSecConf2005, was careful not to overstate the urgency of the problem. He noted that of the world’s current population of two billion cellphones, just 4% are smartphones, the kind vulnerable to malware attack, he noted.
And virus attacks thus far have been limited almost entirely to smartphones running the Symbian Series 60 operating system, but only because it is the leading operating system for smartphones, not because it is particularly vulnerable. L33tdawg: You can find the conference materials for download from Packet Storm.
