>> that are in the RAM just stop working
Exactly what you deserve when you download a virus load it onto your PDA and run it, there are an awful lot of steps to getting a virus on your PDA, plus it's not exactly hard to reset and HotSync is it?
>> The virus writers *have* started targeting the mobile devices and the mobile
>> devices with some kind of connection *are* starting to become really widespread
The problem here is that PDA's and Mobile Phones are relatively transient devices, most people change their phone annually. PDA's last a bit longer but not too much.
The current machines are not virus proof, but then it's pretty hard to get a virus onto them.
The newer machines have better security, and that will continue to improve as we head into the future making the possibility of a virus on a PDA which could attack in the same manner as Windows viruses very difficult indeed.
The other problem here is if you look at the standard model for viruses right now. they are released onto the internet inside programs which people want (generally speaking cracked versions of products). These are downloaded and run by unsuspecting freeloaders and the program spreads through their machine, which is connected to the internet, and infects others who download from them. Plus you have Spyware which is a nuscance and all the back doors into Internet Explorer don't help.
The current PDA model is very different, people go to PalmGear/Handango and the like and download from there, or from a developers own site. These are safe environments, if a virus was in a program there then it would be found and destroyed pretty quickly. It has no chance to spread to a widescale audience.
>> Virus writers target any *popular* platform - not necessarily only the majority one.
What is the difference between 'popular' and 'majority' exactly?
Chris Brooks.
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