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Technology ' ________________ Q�
Why don't mobile phones get viruses?
computer virus is a little program don't evolve by themselves so it's unlikely especially for mobile phones, but these do
A written especially to do a certain task that viruses will be able to infect operating not spread rapidly because we do not all
on a computer with a known operating systems other than that which they are have the same software on our phones.
system and known weaknesses. If you tried written for. As many newer phones are Soon enough crackers will try to write more
to run the virus program on a mobile phone, actually tiny computers, running a variant of viruses for mobile phones and the
it probably will not work, as most viruses are UNIX, they benefit from the robust security manufacturers will have to ensure they
written for just one OS. Computer viruses that the OS is famed for. There are viruses create software to protect the users.
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