IN THE wake of the Love Bug virus attack, computer scientists are warning
that future viruses aimed at intelligent mobile phones and personal digital
assistants (PDAs) may be even worse. They could record your conversations and
forward them to others, delete money from “electronic wallets”, or perhaps rack
up huge telephone bills. “These viruses could spread rapidly in future,”
predicts David Chess, an antivirus researcher at IBM’s T. J. Watson Research
Center in Yorktown Heights, New York.
Computer viruses attack devices that are programmable, and spread when there
is some link between one device and another. Early viruses spread mainly…
