Re: Bug Targeting Hand-Held Devices Was Short-Lived

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Forwarded By: "Berislav Kucan BHZ" <bhz () net-security org>

All this Palm trojan issue was just a charade. If you read closely
about the situation, especially on PalmStation.com, people would see
that the program was created as a proof concept one (it was talked
about on some warez channels as a tool against leechers). Then after
author said "please don't" share the program, but someone started to
deal it over IRC. Numerous articles about the situation were just
cauing panic, and some anti virus companies really enjoyed it. So from
one to another news item, the program started as malicious code, gone
to trojan than to a first virus for Palm Pilots. For me, it is all
giant FUD case, where AV companies just want to use people panic for
their own causes... eof

Berislav Kucan aka BHZ
bhz () net-security org
http://net-security.org


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On 2000.08.31 at 04:01 InfoSec News wrote:

> http://www.latimes.com/business/20000830/t000081534.html
>
> Wednesday, August 30, 2000
> By CHARLES PILLER, Times Staff Writer
>
> SAN FRANCISCO--It might be a dubious distinction, but the Palm
> hand-held computer has finally become popular enough to be targeted by
> a malicious software program.

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