. According to reports presented by the security laboratory G Data, viruses for mobile phones and PDAs are not a real danger to users, since it was revealed that the creation of mobile malware has been stagnant for years.In 2008 99.2% of malicious files were designed to attack Windows, but as cell phones are based on different non-predominant operating systems and each of them adapts to the function of the brand and model of the device in which they are used, the eventual impact of malware is very limited and does not compensate for the time invested by cybercriminals in its development.
In the first half of 2008, only 41 new viruses for mobile phones appeared, and another 70 in the second, which did not represent even 0.01% of the total malware put into circulation during the second half of 2008, when 894,250 new threats were detected.
Source: vnunet.es
