Trojan Horse Stalks Windows Mobile

08-05-04, 12:52 PM

"Russian virus hunters Kaspersky Labs have detected a Trojan horse programme capable of infecting PDAs running Microsoft's PocketPC operating system. Although a very small number of PocketPC viruses have been located, Brador-A is said to be the first backdoor program capable of infecting handhelds running PocketPC. Previous PocketPC viruses have been written as experiments in coding not for malicious intent. Brador-A breaks this pattern by coming pre-loaded with a series of malicious routines.

We all knew this day would come... :realmad:

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2004/08...cketpc_trojan/

08-05-04, 01:22 PM

We all hoped that it wouldnt though

Why do people do this???/

-jcll2002

08-05-04, 07:29 PM

WHY WHY WHY HAVE THEY DONE THIS TO US?????

WHAT HAS A POCKET PC DONE TO THEM

:realmad:

:realmad:

HOW DO I GET THIS AND STOP IT?????

08-05-04, 08:10 PM

Sigh....
Well this is interesting, but something I was curious about is would those antivirus for the Pocket PC be able to detect it? I have seen Norton and all that but I it would really suck for those who have it and can still get infected.

klomp10 · 08-05-04, 09:43 PM

Airscanner free anti virus software. You probaly will never need it but hey you can never be to careful. :)

08-05-04, 09:59 PM

And so it begins.

x2h · 08-05-04, 10:08 PM

is it written by one of us?

08-06-04, 12:27 PM

Originally Posted by awdark

I just wonder if the PocketPc antivirus could catch it.
You know to check its efficiency, as there havent been any viruses on it before.

Well that is the big question. How often are these PPC virus defs updated?

Iguanaman · 08-06-04, 08:46 PM

Norton updates PPC virus definitions once a week via LiveUpdate. The Brador virus is scheduled for installation via LiveUpdate on August 12th according to the symantec website. They already have the somewhat silly WinCE.Duts.A virus.

ironman00818 · 08-07-04, 09:04 AM

McAfee only seems to update once a month. Of course up till now they had no real reason to.

Sellitman · 08-07-04, 09:44 AM

Originally Posted by klomp10

Airscanner free anti virus software. You probaly will never need it but hey you can never be to careful. :)

Has anyone here tried this program yet?

ironman00818 · 08-07-04, 09:49 AM

I have tried it. It seems to go through the motions but it loads slow, acts a little "clunky" and uses a lot of memory compared to virus scan. Of course it's free so I should not nit pick.

Sellitman · 08-07-04, 10:10 AM

Originally Posted by ironman00818

I have tried it. It seems to go through the motions but it loads slow, acts a little "clunky" and uses a lot of memory compared to virus scan. Of course it's free so I should not nit pick.

Thanks for the reply. I guess is it's free I should just get off my fat, lazy blank and try it for myself.

08-07-04, 06:25 PM

Yes it is a bad thing .. but I wouldnt worry to much. Its not that easy to spread and like they say you'd have to open it

ironman00818 · 08-08-04, 08:36 PM

Well it's like cageyjames said. We all knew that it was coming. It was just a matter of when. The sad thing is that adware is the next thing coming. Then spyware and the whole crappy mess that goes with that. I am currently running 10 differnt virus, privacy, adware, spyware security programs on my note book puter and there is hardly a site that I go to where I do not get some type of alert from one of my programs that the site is trying to mess with my puter in some fashon. Even some of the freeware security programs I have tried downloaded data miners. It is kind of crazy when you have to use security programs to check the security programs!