p2pnet.net news:- Podloso, the first virus custom designed to bite iPods, has been spawned by Kaspersky Labs.

But it’s only a proof of concept bug and it’ll only function if Linux is installed.

Suggesting Podloso may be the world’s “lamest virus,” how many iPods run anything other than Apple’s standard software? - wonders ITWire. “One in a thousand? One in ten thousand?”

But it observes, “Sometimes, this type of early research foreshadows future threats,” citing an event goong back three years when Moscow-based KasperskyFinland’s F-Secure, tested the first computer worm that affected mobile phones, spread by Bluetooth signal.

“Now, several hundred phone viruses exist, some of them malicious.”

“We’ve seen it happen over and over in the malware world,” ITWire has SecureWave’s Dee Liebenstein stating.

“Someone will do a test, creating a simple thing that does no real damage. Once hackers see that the approach works, they continue to tweak it and use it for malicious intent.

“Today, there’s the risk of carrying a known Windows virus on a storage device and infecting a computer. Tomorrow, as we look to the devices becoming more powerful and having an operating system, they’ll become targets of their own.”

Slashdot it!

Also See:
ITWire - Podloso: world’s lamest virus?, April 6, 2007

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