Cingular cell phone service - Phones on the internet

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Phones on the internet

TeddyBare

2007-09-22, 3:33 pm

Is anyone running anti- Virus/Spyware on your cellphone??
You get on the internet browse get e-mail with NO protection. It is just a
mater of time till someone spreads one.

Larry

2007-09-22, 10:33 pm

"TeddyBare" < wlindley@konnections
.net> wrote in
news:13fapunc4kfb361
@corp.supernews.com:

> Is anyone running anti- Virus/Spyware on your cellphone??
> You get on the internet browse get e-mail with NO protection. It is
> just a mater of time till someone spreads one.
>
>
>

I think it has already happened. My original E815 started resetting while
watching MobiTV on Alltel. Then, the last time I heard from it, it
rebooted to "Bootloader USB Init", I suppose where it goes looking for its
operating system it didn't find. Alltel sent me a replacment E815,
complete with return postage label for the old one. Others have had
similar problems I've been told by Alltel reps.

Larry
--
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The ultimate dirty bomb......

Todd Allcock

2007-09-22, 10:33 pm

At 22 Sep 2007 13:07:15 -0600 TeddyBare wrote:
> Is anyone running anti- Virus/Spyware on your cellphone??
> You get on the internet browse get e-mail with NO protection. It is
just a
> mater of time till someone spreads one.

First, someone has to WRITE one. For the same reason you can't run
PC software on your phone (different processor and OS) you can't run
a PC virus on your phone either.

While "proof-of-concept" virii have been writen for RIM, Palm, WinMo
and Symbian phones no phone virii I'm aware of have ever been
released into the "wild." Since your phone's OS is in ROM rather
than disk-based, what harm could a phone virus do that a simple
factory reset wouldn't eliminate anyway?

--

"I don't need my cell phone to play video games or take pictures
or double as a Walkie-Talkie; I just need it to work. Thanks for
all the bells and whistles, but I could communicate better with
ACTUAL bells and whistles." -Bill Maher 9/25/2003

Todd Allcock

2007-09-23, 4:33 am

At 22 Sep 2007 23:31:16 +0000 Larry wrote:

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>
> I think it has already happened. My original E815 started
resetting while

> watching MobiTV on Alltel. Then, the last time I heard from it, it
> rebooted to "Bootloader USB Init", I suppose where it goes looking
for its
> operating system it didn't find.

I'll bet that software makers secretly love the age of the computer
virus. Now everyone suspects "malware" instead of firmware and
software bugs! There's a guy on the Pocket PC NGs right now
convinced a "virus" is stopping his PPC phone from synching with his
desktop despite the fact his AV sofware "can't find any virus" and
despite the numerous problems folks have with the flakey Activesync
software for PPCs!

> Alltel sent me a replacment E815,
> complete with return postage label for the old one. Others have
had
> similar problems I've been told by Alltel reps.

Which makes "serious firmware bug" sound far more plausible than
"mysterious virus that only strikes Alltel E815s watching TV."

--

"I don't need my cell phone to play video games or take pictures
or double as a Walkie-Talkie; I just need it to work. Thanks for
all the bells and whistles, but I could communicate better with
ACTUAL bells and whistles." -Bill Maher 9/25/2003

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