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Trojan horses take aim at Symbian cell phones
April 20, 2005
Virus tracker discovers 52 malicious programs hidden inside cell phones games, other phone software.
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Trojan horse drives spam into cell phones
November 9, 2004
Infected computers send out a slew of unwanted text messages, a security firm says.
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Cell phones to get virus protection
March 10, 2005
Kaspersky Lab plans to release antivirus software for Symbian-based cell phones, recently the target of a Trojan and the Cabir virus.
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Skulls program carries Cabir worm into phones
November 29, 2004
New version of the Skulls Trojan releases the cell phone worm, a security firm warns.
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Hybrid Trojan horse aims at Symbian phones
December 22, 2004
Malicious program disguises itself as a video game, but it could mean "game over" for infected cell phones.
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Cell phone virus tries leaping to PCs
September 22, 2005
A virus discovered Wednesday is among the first designed to spread from smart phones to PCs, says security firm F-Secure.
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Mosquito software bites smart phones
August 13, 2004
A possible Trojan horse hidden in an illegal cell-phone game hits smart phones using the Symbian operating system.
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Skulls program kills cell phone apps
November 19, 2004
For some phones infected by the Trojan, the only real fix is a hard reset, which wipes all user data from the device.
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The phantom menace?
March 25, 2005
CNETAsia's Winston Chai wonders whether it's too early to hit the panic button on mobile viruses.
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This week in viruses
March 11, 2005
Antivirus researchers are tracking a new Trojan horse that could prove to be a more pervasive threat to cell phones than Cabir
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Trojan gets the cell phone message
March 7, 2005
Threat could be more pervasive than Cabir, as it uses multimedia text messaging as well as Bluetooth to spread.
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Hacker worries raise hackles
January 10, 2005
Virginia school says intruders stole personal data of thousands. Also: Tool could make Google hacking easier. Critical Windows fix on the way
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