hackfix-virusnews: First PocketPC virus found
- From: "Christy" <snowz@xxxxxxxxxx>
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- Date: Tue, 20 Jul 2004 02:57:06 -0400
First PocketPC virus found
By John Leyden
Published Monday 19th July 2004 08:16 GMT
The first computer virus to infect handheld devices
running Microsoft's PocketPC OS was discovered over
the weekend.
Duts was written by Ratter, of the 29A virus-writing
group, as an academic exercise rather than a serious
attempt to spread malicious code across handheld
computers. The same group created a virus capable of
infecting mobile phones running the Symbian OS,
called Cabir, in June. Cabir - like Duts - was a
proof-of-concept exercise. In both instances, 29A
sent its malicious code straight to anti-virus firms.
Mikko Hypp=F6nen, director of anti-virus research at
Finnish AV firm F-Secure, said it's easier to write
virus for PocketPC than Symbian. "There are well
documented procedures for porting applications from
one version of Windows to the other. We expected
PocketPC viruses to come first perhaps the fact that
they didn't shows virus writers are among the many
people to have Symbian smart phones. Virus writers
are more likely to target gadgets they have
themselves," he added.
Read more here:
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2004/07/19/pocketpc_virus
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