Malwares: A looming threat to mobile phones
IF you are planning to buy the latest mobile phone or a Bluetooth-enabled device, ensure that the mobile vendor loads the anti-virus software, lest your new handset crashes due to virus or phishing attack.
The threat of mobile phone malwares, though not pronounced still, is expected to become a nightmare for mobile phone users in the not too distant future. While vulnerability of the mobile device to such attack could be an issue, there appears to be no solution to this as long as mobile vendors provide only repair service for phone functions and not Trojan removal service.
A report from Trend Micro’s TrendLabs indicates that mobile malwares not only advanced at a rapid rate in the last three months (in terms of technology and range of infection) but caught the users off-guard.