p2pnet - rss feed: Cabir mobile virus de-fanged
p2pnet.net News:- TSG Phone Safe can guard Symbian phones from trojans such as Cabir, the first mobile phone virus, says TSG Pacific, a small Australian company founded in 2001.
So far, Cabir has been more of a curiosity that anything else.
Mobile users are ‘moving targets‘ and as a UK reseacher said, “The only way this virus looks like it will spread is by anti-virus researchers sending it to each other in their high security laboratories.”
Nor, it seems, does Cabir as-is have any lethal qualities, although that in and of itself will be seen as a challenge.
In the meanwhole, Russia’s Kaspersky Labs, which found the bug, believes it was probably created by a virus writer named Vallez, a pseudonym, “used by 29a, an international group of virus writers. The group specializes in creating proof-of-concept viruses. Among the group’s creations are Cap, the first macro virus to cause a global epidemic; Stream, the first virus for additional NTFS streams; Donut, the first virus for .NET and Rugrat, the first Win64 virus.”
Phone Safe, “will be available for download from 10am Australian Eastern Time,” says TSG.
June 21st, 2004 at 4:21 am
yah this is ony a ‘proof of concept’, sad thing is that the only thing being downplayed it seems is that it is proof of worse things possibly to come. oh, DMCA et al, why do you leave the world so unprotected and prepared for disasters from those that disregard you entirely, heh.
TT