“YOU are about as likely to get hit by a falling piano as you are to get a virus on your mobile phone,” says Graham Cluley, a security consultant at UK antivirus firm Sophos. Unlike PCs, phones simply have too many different operating systems for viruses to exploit, he says. And there are too few people who own the “smart phones” capable of receiving and transmitting new software – like a virus – to pose a real risk.
Reading the newspapers last week, you may have got the opposite impression. On 21 February reports surfaced of the first two US phones to…
