Security
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Written by Gizmo
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Thursday, 30 July 2009 12:37 |
By: Roy Mark
Eweek
A study by mobile security company SMobile Systems claims smartphones running the Symbian operating system are breeding grounds for spyware, viruses, worms and Trojans. SMobile says most users of the infected Symbian smartphones are unaware of the infections.
Nearly one out of every 63 smartphones
running the Symbian operating system is infected with some form of spyware,
virus, worm or Trojan, as well as hundreds of unlicensed software programs
installed on the handsets, according to a study conducted by SMobile Systems. A
comparison of the statistics with the worldwide smartphone population places
the number of infected devices globally in the millions.
Since the vast majority of these
infections are designed to be stealthy and as few smartphones posses
anti-malware applications, most infected users are unaware that their devices
have been compromised.
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