Antivirus shot in the arm: viruses targeting mobile devices are growing more sophisticated, but at the same time antivirus providers are coming up with new products to stay a step ahead.(Enterprise)

Wireless Week, April, 2005 by Brown, Karen

There is little doubt mobile viruses are on an evolutionary fast track, with growing evidence over the past few months that they are mutating from simple "proof-of-concept" experiments into legitimate threats that challenge users and network operators.

In response, antivirus providers are literally mobilizing to answer that upgraded threat. It's an ounce of prevention strategy--the idea is to use past experience in the computer world to come up with safeguards before viruses develop the truly damaging features targeting mainstream mobile users.

Virus experts say that since last summer's prototype Cabir virus outbreaks that targeted smartphones using the Symbian operating system, virus activity has accelerated in the past six months--possibly the...

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