Malware Can Traverse From PC To Mobile Device

There has been much hype in the past year regarding the Avian or Bird Flu and the potential for a worldwide pandemic if the virus mutates to a strain which can make the jump from animal to person to another person. Thus far, not much has come of that hype, but we now have an equivalent in the computer security world. A new proof-of-concept virus has been developed to demonstrate how a virus can infect a computer, and then make the jump to a mobile device and spread from there. For more about this proof of concept virus, read this ComputerWorld article: New virus can pass from PCs to mobile devices.