Computer hackers(黑客)have now got their hands on mobile phones.
A phone virus(病毒)can your phone do things you have no control over, computer security experts . It might 3the White House or the police, or forward your personal address book to a marketing company.
Or it could simply eat into the phone’s operating software, turning it and erasing your personal information. Similar viruses have already made mobile phone owners in Japan and Europe.
Ari Hypponen, chief technical officer of a computer security in Finland, said a virus “can get your and send them elsewhere. And it can record your .
Mobiles are now able to surf the Net, send emails and software, so they are an easy for the same hackers who have sent viruses to computers over the last decade.
“It’s technically now,” said Stephen Trilling, director of research at anti-virus maker Symantec Corp based in the US. “If the phone is connected to the , it can be used to transmit threats and targets, just as any computer can.”
In Japan, if you opened a certain email message your mobile, it would cause the phone to repeatedly the national emergency number. So phone operators had to emergency calls until the bug was .
In Europe, mobile’s short message service, SMS, has been used to send codes that could damage phones.
Mobile users can viruses, of course, by sticking to their traditional phones Web links, some experts said.
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