Boost Seen in Mobile Phone Viruses

Boost Seen in Mobile Phone Viruses

Based on reports by McAfee, viruses and spam attacks have become prevalent in mobile phones. The security firm revealed that more than half of the entire group of mobile makers have reported precedents where virus, malware or spam are involved.


In 2008 alone, around 17 percent of all handsets thoughout the globe were reported to have been besieged by viruses, totaling over a million attacks. In addition, McAfee accounted for 70 percent of mobile makers consider mobile security as their first concern.



McAfee said, "Overall, there has been a dramatic upswing in the number of incidents across all the major threat categories -- including exploits that affected manufacturers' device functionality, users' privacy and even network or service capacity -- in many cases by more than double over the last year."