Wednesday, May 24, 2006

Commwarrior phone virus keeps spreading

What would you get if you give a techie phone to the clueless? The proliferation of an easily avoided, easily removed virus! This is what's been happening in the local scene with the proliferation of the Commwarrior cellphone virus. The early variants of this phone virus can easily be removed manually but people insist on paying up to Php 500 to so-called "phone technicians" to get rid of it. Now, Commwarrior has a variant that is not as easily removed but it still can be done by the owners themselves using a simple cellphone "anti-virus" but people still pay so-called "phone technicians" to get rid of them.

Well, that's free enterprise (and a dash of cluelessness) can do...

Read more at news.inq7.net/infotech/...

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