Cell Phone Virus

[TheGreatSatan]

Can cell phones get viruses?

[Trace]

I think there have been some proof of concept ones for WM

[Zephik]

Maybe if someone created one, but it wouldn't be very widespread. Phones differ quite a bit and so you would have to program a new virus for each phone. But I guess if you hacked into one and created one that would.. idk.. send itself throughout your contacts list. But... hmm. Is that even possible? I mean, if you programmed it all yourself, but once it gets to a new phone, the execute command mahjigger probably isnt there...

Interesting. But I think not. Which is probably why we don't get viruses on our phones. That might be slowly changing though... hmmm...

[Luke122]

Eset makes an antivirus for Windows Mobile devices, so there must be some out there.

I just wiped my phone due to some "odd behavior", and now it's great. So I'm inclined to believe that it's possible for sure. :)

[x88x]

Smartphones, yes. (yes, even iPhones :P ) One of the few bad things about standardizing smartphone OSs is that it creates a much easier target for malware developers. I think something like 90% of smartphones on in the wild today are running either WinMo, iPhone OS, RIM (blackberry) or Symbian.

'Dumb'phones, eh, kinda. I think there have been proof of concept ones, but like Zephik mentioned, for 'dumb'phones, the OS differs so much between the phones, and has so few capabilities, that it would be difficult to spread....I also struggle to find a purpose for a virus on a 'dumb'phone.

[Bopher]

I think, and someone can check this if they want, you can even get spyware on you're smart phone. I think Spybot has a Sybian version of their software out.

[progbuddy]

Not too hard on a Windows Mobile phone or an iPhone, considering that both have large amounts of source code available on the internet, and they both have a fairly similar base to their computer counterparts.