I can only imagine what it'll be like trying educate and get many cell phone users, who don't use the Internet, to keep their Anti-virus program updated on their cell phone.
My firm has a strict no Blue Tooth Phone or PDA policy.
It's hard to feel sorry for these people who download and install anything that comes there way and then are shocked, shocked, that they got a virus
If you have a plain old cell phone that just makes phone calls, is this anything to worry about?
My Nokia cheats like hell at backgammon in difficult mode if I turn doubling on.
...and bound to be worse, given the fact that the concepts of "cellphone" and "PDA" converge more and more with each passing day.
My electric circuits professor (an associate prof, mind you) and his TA/grader have a Palm Treo each, furnished by the company they work for. Awesome stuff. But the things you can get when you browse the web with those gizmos are... well, something your run-of-the-mill antivirus can't get rid of.
I wouldn't be surprised to see anti-virus and firewalls for cell phones some day in the future.
I just needed to get a new cell phone. My (nearly) 4 year old phone needed new batteries (the would no longer hold a charge, something that I think was the cause of a car adapter I had bought on eBay, something I'll never do again), and I had trouble finding them.
My carrier is Verizon, and I was "elligable" for a new phone, so I took a look around. I really only wanted an LG phone, because I had such great luck with my last phone (I had nothing but bad luck with Motorolla phones before). I wanted a plain phone, with an external display for caller ID. That was the only feature I wanted. Good luck trying to find just that. Every phone seems to be Internet ready, and the ratio of camera phones to vanilla, plain cell phones seems to be about 10 to 1!
I just want a telephone that works, not something that I can play games on, or music, or email, or "surf the web." I'm going to be really angry if my phone ever gets disabled by one of these viruses.
Mark