The danger of mobile viruses
The devastating damage that viruses can do to a network of PCs is well understood, and companies have long been protecting against the danger by implementing antivirus applications. But the explosive and, in corporate terms, largely unmanaged growth of mobile computing threatens to undermine traditional virus protection. The principal problem comes from the fact that PDAs and smartphones create backdoors into corporate infrastructures that can be exploited by viruses and malicious code to spread infections. Full Story