First Mobile Phone Virus Discovered 240
CHaN_316 writes "News.com.au is running an article about the First Mobile Phone Virus Discovered. The virus 'called Cabir - appears to have been developed by an international group specialising in creating viruses which try to show "that no technology is reliable and safe from their attacks"... until now it has had no harmful effect.' Cabir infects the Symbian operating system, and spreads via bluetooth. Great... lets see when we can download the world's first mobile phone anti-virus!"
Ring!...Ring!.... (Score:5, Funny)
dupe... (Score:5, Funny)
say it with me now... (Score:5, Funny)
{ring ring}
You've been haxx0red!
Also discovered... (Score:2, Funny)
I can see it now (Score:5, Funny)
spreads via bluetooth huh.... (Score:5, Funny)
Kinda like a real virus.
maybe... (Score:5, Funny)
it submits stories to
Waitaminnut-- (Score:5, Funny)
Quick, close port 80!
Re:dupe... (Score:4, Funny)
Hey, go easy on the editors - it's not their fault. Michael obviously has a Nokia Series-60 phone which has been infected. It's a variant and posts duplicate story submissions to slashdot. I've already tried to alert Sophos. They spat in my face and called me a liar.
Re:dupe... (Score:5, Funny)
Fools (Score:4, Funny)
NEW TOPIC ANYONE (Score:1, Funny)
The Holy Roman Empire was neither Holy nor Roman. Discuss.
Here's the dupe update (Score:5, Funny)
Update: 06/15 15:15 GMT by M [slashdot.org]: You may remember we mentioned this earlier today [slashdot.org].
Helpfully yours
*bow*
Cell phone virus? (Score:5, Funny)
That shanker lasted a week!
Infect *this* (Score:5, Funny)
I'll believe that when they infect my refrigerator. Oops, looks like they already got that week-old bottle of milk...darn...
Re:dupe... (Score:5, Funny)
I got an idea!!! (Score:5, Funny)
I know, I know. It is confusing and complicated. I myself didn't believe this was a dupe until I read the 65th post saying it was. To be honest, even then I was a little skeptical. So to be sure I read the next 20 posts. Sure enough they all agreed with the other 65 people: The story is a dupe.
But for some reason, I still wasn't 100% convinced. To be super sure, I took a strole down to my crime lab and ran a few tests. The results?
The framerate on Quake 3 is better when using the Radeon 9800 Pro compared to using a Voodoo 2.
I realized that these benchmark tests were getting me nowhere, so I quickly ran outside and stopped a few people on the street. After explaining the situation on slashdot, 3 people quickly walked away, 2 spit on me, and the last guy asked me for change so he could take the bus. I gave him 35 cents.
At this point I started panicing, as time is running out. I ran back inside read and yesterday's penny-arcade. What an eye opener... it dawned on me: NO ONE FUCKING CARES IF THIS STORY IS A DUPE. JESUS CHRIST, LEAVE IT ALONE AND MOVE ONTO THE NEXT STORY.
That is all.
Re:Ring!...Ring!.... (Score:5, Funny)
Slashdot, hello. Yes he is, hold on. CmdrTaco, it's for you. It's God. He says we should have girls at Slashdot.
The ultimate cell phone virus... (Score:2, Funny)
Re:Dupe on the same page even! (Score:3, Funny)
Important question (Score:3, Funny)
Re:say it with me now... (Score:5, Funny)
Guy with glasses: "C4N j00 h4> m3 n0\/\/? g00d, WTF!!!1111
Re:Important question (Score:4, Funny)
Not as off-topic as you thought, eh?
Re:dupe... (Score:2, Funny)
Re:why? oh why? WHY!? (Score:3, Funny)
Maybe the departments don't communicate well?
Re:dupe... (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Way nicer than they could have been. (Score:2, Funny)
Is there some group/agency I could call that would let me do this without arresting me and putting me in a box forever?
Discovered? (Score:3, Funny)
My hat's off to these brave pioneers, searching for viruses in the wilds of the Yukon. (Or is it the Netherlands?) I imagine it must have been like the guy who found the first dinosaur skeleton. All these hecklers saying they don't exaist, then BOOM justification for all that research money spent digging through centuries of sediment.
No, now really. Isn't the proper term something more like "released," "written," or perhaps "invented?"