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First Pocket PC virus discovered

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19 Jul 2004 00:00

The first virus to attack handheld computers running Microsoft's Windows Pocket PC software has been found. It is called "Duts", and its existence has been revealed by the Russian security firm BitDefender. The company said the virus posed no threat and was produced only as a "proof of concept" by its creators. The program comes from the same virus writing group that put together similar code that could spread between smartphones running Symbian software.

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