" mobile viruses walk twenty year behind"

Smartphones hit always more in vogue, but the mobile viruses that they attack be yet long not so popular. According to Kimmo Alkio, manager of beveiliger F-Precise, is the threat minimal. He expects no “dramatic increase” of malware for mobiles.

Alkio says that F-Precise a “consistent growth” has considering of the number of malicious programs for clever telephones, but value the number of viruses so around the three hundred specimens. In light of the fact that there are present forty thousand viruses for the pc in circulation, the mobile malwareprobleem forms a pebble stone in the shoe of the antivirusbestrijders.

It its especially hobby food that self until now closed occupy with the writing of such harmful software. The viruses become especially uses round innocent bellers count in bill to bring for services that they have not uses. F-precise yet no professional criminals sees pour self on this new market.

The viruses are square, compared with their brothers in the pc-surroundings, yet at the onvolwassen. In June 2004 let F-Precise malware see that self via Bluetooth about Symbian-telephones spread.,. That was the first known case of a mobile virus that itself can spread. Three year later on earns F-Preciseper cent of its earnings from the fight of mobile malware.