Lol

Michael St. Neitzel:
Your solution is worst then the problem.
I don't want some company (for example, apple) deciding for me what I can and can't do with my smartphone / computer / other device.
This is one of the reasons I don't have an iphone.
The reason for 95% of the existing infected computers is people dumb enough to click on the "You're the 100000th visitor! This isn't a joke, you really are!!!11" banners and dumb enough to download the "really cool" screensaver / mouse icons. Don't be stupid, use a good browser, correctly configure your firewall and you won't have spyware.

The threat of smartphone malware was predicted over and over again when the first smartphone handsets came out. It was also predicted when the first iPhone was released and again when Apple launched its App Store.

Vendors such as Apple have learned very quickly that you shouldn’t allow anything to install and run on your phone without a recognised certificate. Apple is practicing this very successfully in the form of its walled garden app store, testing and certification process. If you create a binary for the iPhone you simply can’t upload and run that on your own iPhone or anyone elses. As a user, you simply can’t go and install software from just anywhere, you have to get it from Apple’s store where everything has been pre-screened for embedded malware threats.

However, smartphone platforms that allow users to install applications from untrusted sources do run the risk of issues, if not from malware but simply from poor coding that can destabilise an otherwise reliable handheld device. RIM’s BlackBerry devices run this risk, as users can download applications from anywhere, not just RIM’s app store. The same applies to Google Android devices, anything Windows Mobile-based and other platforms such as Symbian.

Until these platforms tighten up their third-party application processes, the risk remains. But it is just that – a risk – one that has so far failed to manifest itself as an actual threat.

Michael St. Neitzel
Vice President Threat Research & Technologies
Sunbelt Software

Etisalat... freely draining poor consumers' wallets with their monopolistic practices, rather than being brilliant enough to stop blocking VOIP and 'restricted' websites. Well, didn't realize that their idea of self-redemption was by serving up free spyware!

Etisalat... freely draining poor consumers' wallets with their monopolistic practices, rather than being brilliant enough stop blocking VOIP and 'restricted' websites. Well, didn't realize that their codeword for self-redemption was free spyware!

Unlike leaky PCs and Macs, security on mainframes WORKS (you can rely on RACF and z/os in general....). So you can feel free to discuss mainframe security while your eavesdropping cranckberry is around. Of course one should avoid speaking his userid/pw.... (as usual, the user is the weakest link)