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"From what I can read, it looks like the virus afects the phones that use the embedded version of Windows."

Apparently you can't read.

The bad news for you is that it just proves that the most popular OS will attract the bad guys, something the anti-MS zealots have been trying to disprove all along. FireFox is falling appart at this point, so it seems the magic marketshare point is around 10%, at which point the bad guys seem to take notice.

Apple has been putting out some monster patches, like this one:

http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=302163

There's some pretty nasty holes in there!

Fortunately for them Steve Jobs doesn't have it in him to grow the Mac marketshare, so their clueless followers are probably safe for the time being.
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About time!  An_Axe_to_Grind | 09/22/05
My brother had one take down his MAC  John Zern | 09/22/05
Really?  Immanuel Tranz-Mischen | 09/22/05
Re: My brother had one take down his MAC  Otto_Delete | 09/22/05
Now for one that jumps to iPods  Boot_Agnostic | 09/22/05
Well, the product is big enough to get...  John Zern | 09/22/05
Size doesn't matter.  Immanuel Tranz-Mischen | 09/22/05
But does bad phone design mean  Boot_Agnostic | 09/23/05
That is an unverifiable claim  Real World | 09/23/05
It would seem that even Linux Experts ...  ShadeTree | 09/23/05
of course they do  D-Ram | 09/23/05
Bad engineering?  sykandtyed | 09/23/05
A few well advertised  James Dean_z | 09/22/05
I wish they would specify "Windows PCs"  Chad_z | 09/22/05
correct, as now it does include viruses for  John Zern | 09/22/05
Please enlighten us.  Immanuel Tranz-Mischen | 09/22/05
There have been and will continue to be ...  ShadeTree | 09/23/05
Well, for the Mac  3D0G | 09/23/05
What OS is in the affected phones  wackoae | 09/22/05
The expected OS  NonZealot | 09/22/05
Looks like...  Qbt | 09/22/05
Symbian != MS embedded...  dsentman@... | 09/23/05
Perhaps an appropriate analogy...  dsentman@... | 09/23/05
re: wrongview  ShadeTree | 09/23/05

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