There was also electronic picture frames that had malware installed by the Chinese that did the same thing. I still prefer a phone that is a phone not a work-a-like computer. Just my perception. The more you put into devices the more problems that device will have long term. Just because the bug was not designed for the phone does not mean that the writers of the bug can not or will not adapt the bug to infect the phone. We load as few services on a server to reduce the surface area of attack there is no reason to not take this to the mobile phone sphere.
Jon On Tue, Mar 9, 2010 at 5:34 PM, Ben Scott <[email protected]> wrote: > On Tue, Mar 9, 2010 at 12:03 PM, Jon Harris <[email protected]> wrote: > > Did you see the article that Kurt posted on the Android phone with the > bug > > in it? I don't think I would want a "web" based phone from any company > at > > the moment. > > The article said it was MS-Windows malware that was stored on the > mass storage side of the phone's memory. The malware was harmless to > the phone's internal OS. So it didn't have anything to do with it > being a "web-based phone". It could have happened with a USB flash > drive. > > There were some iPods that shipped with malware on their hard disks > a few years back. One of them showed up here at %WORK%; set off the > AV when someone plugged it in as a mass storage device. > > -- Ben > > ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ > ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~ > > ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~
