First Pocket PC Virus Discovered

by **Dan East** » Jul 19, 2004 @ 2:51pm

I just got done posting about this on Slashdot.

First of all, it isn't a real virus, but a "proof of concept" that asks permission to run.

Creating a PPC virus is a trivial matter. Anyone that can create Windows virii could easily create a Windows CE virus with eVC++.

As I said on Slashdot, I would be much more concerned about a standard Windows worm or virus that would delete on files on my PPC when I ActiveSyncs, since ActiveSync has no security at all.

There are other things I would be even more concerned about, but I don't want to give anyone any ideas.

Dan East

by **chuck** » Jul 19, 2004 @ 3:35pm

i still don't see why anyone would make a ppc virus, there's not really any point. Market saturation of ppc's is rather low, and connectivity... while increasing is still really low too.

by **Miracle** » Jul 19, 2004 @ 3:58pm

by **Registered** » Jul 19, 2004 @ 8:01pm

by **RChickenMan** » Jul 19, 2004 @ 8:15pm

by **Miracle** » Jul 19, 2004 @ 10:16pm

by **Andy** » Jul 20, 2004 @ 12:25am

by **saurabh** » Jul 22, 2004 @ 6:29am

by **sponge** » Jul 22, 2004 @ 6:31am

by **jongjungbu** » Jul 22, 2004 @ 5:46pm

by **fdave** » Jul 22, 2004 @ 11:14pm

by **Mechcommander** » Jul 23, 2004 @ 5:34am

Eh. I'm really not too concerned. I do full backups with the included utility on my iPAQ at least twice a month, so if a virus were to destroy all the data on my PPC, I'd just bring back a backup file that's stored on my laptop and main machine.

by **Miracle** » Jul 23, 2004 @ 8:03am

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