
Once a smartphone is infected, the virus then attempts to infect another phone within range that has Bluetooth enabled in discoverable mode. "Most people don't realise they have smartphones," said Niemela. "They just want a fancy phone, and don't realise it's a full-featured computing device."
However, mobile-phone malware is rare and few incidents cause people trouble, according to Matias Impivaara, director of mobile security at F-Secure.





