BBC has an article on the recent Symbian viruses and how they can infect can’t infect your car. F-Prot conducted tests to check if the recent reports about the virus infecting Lexus cars are true or not.

Makes you wonder why people come up with such ideas. How can a virus that runs on Symbian infect a non-Symbian OS without carrying a packaged version of itself for the target platform?. However, I must add that what is now an urban legend (?) may one day become reality.

Here’s the link: Cars safe from computer viruses

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