The Pain of Malware on HTC Android phones

Malware found on HTC Android phone from Vodafone
from CNET News.com
HTC mobile device running Android was distributed by Vodafone with a
botnet program on it, as well as Conficker and a password-stealing
Trojan, Panda Labs says.

http://news.cnet.com/8301-27080_3-10...=2547-1_3-0-20
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"Today one of our colleagues received a brand new Vodafone HTC Magic
with Google's Android OS," researcher Pedro Bustamante wrote on the
Panda Research Blog on Monday.

"The interesting thing is that when she plugged the phone to her PC
via USB, her Panda Cloud Antivirus went off, detecting both an
autorun.inf and autorun.exe as malicious," he wrote. "A quick look
into the phone quickly revealed it was infected and spreading the
infection to any and all PCs that the phone would be plugged into."

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This comes after I just read a few hours ago that University
researchers concluded Open Source phones where highly likely to be the
source of future computer attacks. I did not bother to post that which
I thought was interesting as I personally felt it was unlikely and
some usenet fruitcake would have gotten in a wad saying the post was
biased.

Little did I know an Android (Open Source) based attack was already
underway!