There are no authenticated records of virus or other malware managing to invade a BlackBerry without human assistance. Basically, a virus is a program, and to run anything on a BB you first have to click OK and give permission to install it. That makes it tough to slip past a smart owner.
However, there is one caution. Many BlackBerry phones also get used as USB storage, you can connect to a PC and use the phone like a USB flash drive. There is a plague of malware circulating PCs which travels by USB, and will try to load itself from an infected computer onto any USB storage device it sees. These viruses won't hurt your phone (they are written for Windows, not BB) but they can travel between computers using the phone as a vector like any other USB storage device. If you are connecting to unknown computers use due diligence when connecting back to your own PC. You need to scan from a Windows PC to find these problems.
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