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Users untouched by mobile viruses despite hype
Thursday, 05 May 2005, 17:29 GMT

The mobile phone virus threat is been wildly over-hyped, according to a support firm which says calls about infections by mobile malware are almost unknown. WDSGlobal handles around 100,000 specialist data support calls every month on behalf of Nokia, T-Mobile, Orange, Sony-Ericsson, HP and other operators and manufacturers.

Less than 10 of 275,000 support calls fielded by the firm in the first three months of this year were related to a mobile viruses.

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