Showing posts with label Mobile Phone Virus. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Mobile Phone Virus. Show all posts

Wednesday, December 2, 2009

How to Protect Your Mobile Phone from Viruses?

As mobile phones evolve so too do the malicious software, situations, and perpetrators of such that they can fall prey to. It is imperative that all users of mobile phones remember that other people can and will use your cell phone to invade your privacy and personal space without ever even dialing your mobile phone number.

Because mobile phones have the marvelous talent for keeping a record of all calls made and received, they have become an obvious target for unscrupulous activity. Back in 2006, a number of reports appeared on the internet regarding a company that was marketing a piece of software capable of embedding itself in a mobile phone and remotely transmitting this "call log" to someone else's server.