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8/6/2004

Pocket PC Gets First Trojan

Filed under: — dan @ 9:44 am

At least it won’t take over the world with a Pocket PC trojan. Still annoying that virus makers are targeting handheld devices now. Not as annoying as pop-up ads, though…
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A malicious Trojan horse program has emerged for Pocket PCs, antivirus companies said Thursday, but they characterized the threat as relatively low.

The program, known alternately as Backdoor.Bardor.A and WinCE.Brador.a, lets an attacker gain full control of the handheld and is the first such “backdoor Trojan” program to emerge for Pocket PCs. However, such backdoor programs are not capable of propagating on their own and instead must be sent as e-mail attachments or through similar means, making them less dangerous.

http://news.com.com/Malicious+program+aims+for+Pocket+PCs/2100-7349_3-5298781.html?part=rss&tag=5298781&subj=news.7349.20

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