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Get real.

Cayble 11th Aug 2010

@NetAdmin1178
First off, many infections these days rely on poor user judgment to get a foothold on the device its trying to infect. Its not so bizarre or unusual that this particular point needs to be dwelt on like some kind of an unlikely rarity. The fact is many many people who use phones are quite young and have no idea that a modern smartphone can be subject to the same kind of malicious installations that a full blown computer can and as such there are bound to be plenty of opportunities for this kind of thing to work.

Secondly, the whole article was short. It wasn't a 2 page story with a single line devoted to how the software gets on the phone, it was a short and to the point piece.

Thirdly, any time a story comes up like this about a Windows driven product we have the lowly masses of Windows haters gather to shout about "more proof of Microsoft's incompetence and evil!!" Its about time the anti-Microsoft crowd swallowed a little pride and accepted that other OS's have insecurities or at least let up a touch on the Windows bashing for every minor issue that surfaces. In the world of high tech communications and data processing its a fact of life we all have to live with.