Tuesday, March 08, 2005

Worms and Viruses Infect IM and Phones

MSNBC reported on Kelvir, an Instant Message worm that began circulating Sunday.

With e-mail viruses less effective than before, virus writers, they say, are now turning their attention to the popular — and not very secure — chat tools used by millions. Symantec, CA, TrendMicro, and McAfee all report on Kelvir. In addition to Kelvir, other IM viruses and worms have been reported, such as Bropia, by here and Symantec.

MobilMag reports on CommWarrior, a new virus that attacks Symbian Phones via MMS (multimedia messaging) as well as Bluetooth. DataFellows and McAfee report on these new phone viruses.

WirelessIQ.info, ComputerWeekly, Reuters,
TechTree, and ZDNet report on this new threat to cell phones.

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