F-Secure and Symbian row over hype


Commwarrior alert reignites battle over mobile malware danger.

An alert from

F-Secure

over a new version of the

Commwarrior

mobile worm has led to angry words from mobile operating system developer

Symbian

. While

F-Secure

admit the worm has not as yet caused major problems, and seems unlikely to spread widely,

Symbian

fear hype over malware could damage their business and future development plans.

The debate follows accusations in recent weeks from

CA

that

F-Secure

were hyping the mobile threat to create a market for their mobile AV products. In a recent press release, F-Secure claimed to have discovered 57 new mobile threats in July alone.

Read


F-Secure

‘s alert

, and some

analysis from

ZDNet


.

Posted on 09 August 2006 by

Virus Bulletin


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