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Thiry mobile viruses and counting

Following up on yesterday’s Cabir post, Reuters/Yahoo reports on the growth in mobile phone targeted viruses. The latest stats: There are 30 known mobile viruses today versus 112,000 known PC viruses.

The best part of the article, however, is this quote from mobile security software maker F-Secure:

“Previously, it had been a little like selling refrigerators to Eskimos,” Vihavainen said about attempts to sell the software to mobile operators. “Now we are actually getting calls from major operators asking us what to do.”

That’s a metaphor only someone from a northern country would come up with! :-)

This was written by Bill Day. Posted on Sunday, February 20, 2005, at 12:30 am. Filed under Security, Wireless. Bookmark the permalink. Follow comments here with the RSS feed. Both comments and trackbacks are currently closed.

3 Comments

  1. Mikko wrote:

    Actually, the count for mobile malware today is 73. Versus around 140,000 PC viruses.

    Mikko / F-Secure

    Friday, September 16, 2005 at 3:54 am | Permalink
  2. Bill Day wrote:

    Thanks for the update, Mikko.

    Friday, September 16, 2005 at 8:14 am | Permalink
  3. Bill Day wrote:

    Om Malik referenced this entry at: http://gigaom.com/2005/02/22/wireless-security-where/

    Sunday, October 9, 2005 at 1:16 am | Permalink