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segunda-feira, fevereiro 21, 2005

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A version of the Cabir virus has turned up in two Nokia 6600s on display in a California cell phone store, in what is believed to be the first "on-the-ground" sighting of the virus in the United States.

Just how the phones were infected isn't known, but it would have been very easy, given that both were on public display in the Santa Monica, Calif., shop's window. Anyone walking past the store could have dosed the handsets via their built-in Bluetooth antennas. In announcing the infection, antivirus company F-Secure did not specify exactly when the infections were discovered.

Two sources familiar with the sighting said the phones in the window could have been spreading Cabir to passers-by; although additional instances haven't been reported.
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While instances of infected phones are still extremely rare, each serves as a warning of the day when the threat of downloading a virus on a phone is as great as it is now on personal computers, said David Sym-Smith, a senior vice president at Innopath, which recently began working to deliver a version of security specialist McAfee's software for handsets.
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Cabir mobile virus found in U.S. | CNET News.com

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