Malicious Code Exploits Backdoor in PDA Security

It has only the been last couple of months that anti-virus companies have uncovered the first two handheld viruses, one for Symbian smartphones and the other for Pocket PC PDAs and phones. Fortunately, reformed virus writers created these worms—EPOC.Cabir for Symbian and WinCE.Dust for Pocket PC— as members of 29a, an international group of programmers that specialize in proof-of-concept viruses.

So EPOC.Cabir and WinCE.Dust were developed not to create havoc but to prove that malicious code for handhelds could be generated.

Unfortunately, a less "noble" virus writer paid attention and took 29a's warning as a call to mischief...or worse. He set forth the first Trojan Horse for Pocket PCs. Discovered today by a number of anti-virus companies.
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Pretty soon even non-smart phones will be "smart" enough to need antivirus protection. What scares me is that some genius figured out how to transmit a virus via Bluetooth.