When ur phone boots up, doesnt it do that security thingy???
ohh, and viruses use codes, and i dont think anyone would take the time to write codes for a specific phone, to destroy it... so very unlikely... (i may be wrong, i will accept any flaming)
I was on training with RIMM and they said one of the advantages over their competitors is that they have never had a recorded virus on any of their platform. All those antivirus programs are nothin but gimmicks because there is no such thing with Blackberry. The worst things that happen to these phones are spam! :-)
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Anything with an OS as complex as a phone can get a virus. The ways that a virus can get in (mostly) are:
- instaling an infected program
- an email that contains an attachment that you open
- bluetooth.
The more BlackBerrys there are, the more likely viruses become. The BlackBerry is clearly wide open to 'competitve' viruses from BlackBerry haters and competitors.
The BlackBerry OS is not at all secure, like Windows (well a bit).
There will soon have to be an anti-virus module within Desktop Manager, BES/BIS and maybe one on the phone too.
Free programs are a menace both on PCs and on BlackBerrys as it is so easy to include a little piece of code that does a lot of damage.
Make no mistake, this will come. Being on CrackBerry will helo a lot because any infected program will quickly become known and may thus be avoided.
While there may not be any blackberry viruses, it is certainly possible for a blackberry to carry a PC virus. If you connect your blackberry to a music site, for example, you could download a music file carrying a PC virus. The virus would have no effect on the Blackberry, but if you sync your BlackBerry to your PC and copy the music over, you just sent the virus to your PC.
This is the reason I recommend you format new media cards. They can potentially come preloaded with PC malware. Formatting them in the Blackberry eliminates that risk.
Last edited by JeffH; 08-02-08 at 07:51 AM.
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Actually, I think I got one on my Nokia... Umm... I think it was a 6133.
But the thing ate up my sim card, creating an infinite # of files and folders of varying sizes, and "created dates" destroying the card completely.
So, possibility, yes.
Severity, just as extreme as PC virus's.
And personally, I have no clue how the h3ll I got it. I'm one of those people that can get away without having antivirus software running, cause I'm that damn paranoid. :P
You see it's too much of a hassel to make viruses for blackberries when you have so many computers out there that are unprotected with much more sensitive information on them.
Not to mention that the computers are often left wide open.
