> Small, green and wrinkled ...

Size matters not. :-)

> As I see, it can be of an advantage to be in a niche market.

Yes; another advantage is that since the number of known malware is small, it 
is relatively easy for one person to analyse it, understand it, and implement 
proper handling of it. Compare that to the 200,000+ known viruses for the PC. 
Implementing detection of those in a reasonable time (i.e., before that number 
doubles) is no longer possible for a single human. Unless the Force is really 
strong in him... :-)

> On distribution of malware: I would guess that a placement of "50
> free celebrity nudes as screen saver for PalmOS incl. crack!!!!"
> on Kazaa, eMule etc, would probably work.

Perhaps. I am not very familiar with the P2P sharing scene - is Palm software 
often distributed this way? And we again have the popularity factor - what 
percentage of the people who get software from the P2P networks are Palm OS 
users? If they are very few, malware distributed this way is unlikely to have 
significant impact.

Anyway - I didn't say that the threat is non-exitent (a mistake that many 
people who think themselves familiar with the Palm devices often make). I only 
said that it is minimal and that the current software distribution model for 
these devices isn't very friendly to malware distribution.

Regards,
Vesselin
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