Are cellphone virus issues really that bad?

Slashdot has an article up asking if the cell phone virus threat is overblown.

Part of the issue here is that most of the noise in the press about how bad the virus issue on cell phones is comes from Symantec. Since they are an anti-virus software vendor, they stand to benefit directly from said claims being as bad as possible. The bulk of all cell phone viruses at this point don't really do anything, they are more just to show that it can be done.
So the answer to the question of whether it is currently overblown probably is "yes" but it doesn't mean that it should be ignored entirely. It also means that you should look at who is warning you about any given virus and what they stand to gain from you taking action based on what they tell you.

Posted by Eric at May 9, 2005 01:54 PM | TrackBack