I dunno, bluetooth on phones is much diffrent than wifi on laptops.

With a laptop you have to sit down, open it up, power it on, wait for it to
boot, etc...
With a phone with bluetooth, its on all the time, most are discoverable by
default,
and are on all the time and it would only take a few seconds of being in
range to
transfer malware.

With that being said I have never gotten a bluetooth virus, but then again i
turn off
bluetooth on my phone when i am not using it becasue of concerns like this
and also battery
concerns.

I wouldn't mind seeing or contributing to a bluetooth honeypot that would
run on a Symbian
of PocketPC OS that people could use to collect samples so a 3rd party
infection count could be
established.

On 8/15/06, Nicolas RUFF <nicolas.ruff (at) gmail (dot) com [email concealed]> wrote:
>
> > The thing to keep in mind here is that this really isn't a problem yet.
> > You won't see any WLAN viruses' base on driver level exploits any time
> > soon for one very important reason, proximity. We wanted these issued
> > raised and fixed before the distance of a wifi connection for your
> > average user will be measured in kilometers instead of the meters it is
> > today.
>
> You mean, F-"I have been infected by 4 Bluetooth viruses myself"-Secure
> is just spreading FUD, because Bluetooth has a 10-feet effective range ?
> ;)
>
> http://www.f-secure.com/weblog/archives/archive-072006.html#00000928
>
> Regards,
> - Nicolas RUFF
>
<div>I dunno, bluetooth on phones is much diffrent than wifi on laptops.</div>
<div> </div>
<div>With a laptop you have to sit down, open it up, power it on, wait for it to boot, etc...</div>
<div>With a phone with bluetooth, its on all the time, most are discoverable by default, </div>
<div>and are on all the time and it would only take a few seconds of being in range to </div>
<div>transfer malware.</div>
<div> </div>
<div>With that being said I have never gotten a bluetooth virus, but then again i turn off </div>
<div>bluetooth on my phone when i am not using it becasue of concerns like this and also battery</div>
<div>concerns.</div>
<div> </div>
<div>I wouldn't mind seeing or contributing to a bluetooth honeypot that would run on a Symbian</div>
<div>of PocketPC OS that people could use to collect samples so a 3rd party infection count could be</div>
<div>established. <br> </div>
<div><span class="gmail_quote">On 8/15/06, <b class="gmail_sendername">Nicolas RUFF</b> <<a href="mailto:nicolas.ruff (at) gmail (dot) com [email concealed]">nicolas.ruff (at) gmail (dot) com [email concealed]</a>> wrote:</span>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="PADDING-LEFT: 1ex; MARGIN: 0px 0px 0px 0.8ex; BORDER-LEFT: #ccc 1px solid">> The thing to keep in mind here is that this really isn't a problem yet.<br>> You won't see any WLAN viruses' base on driver level exploits any time
<br>> soon for one very important reason, proximity. We wanted these issued<br>> raised and fixed before the distance of a wifi connection for your<br>> average user will be measured in kilometers instead of the meters it is
<br>> today.<br><br>You mean, F-"I have been infected by 4 Bluetooth viruses myself"-Secure<br>is just spreading FUD, because Bluetooth has a 10-feet effective range ? ;)<br><br><a href="http://www.f-secure.com/weblog/archives/archive-072006.html#000009
28">
http://www.f-secure.com/weblog/archives/archive-072006.html#00000928</a>
<br><br>Regards,<br>- Nicolas RUFF<br></blockquote></div><br>

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