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Magnum335:
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--- Quote from: "barnyfarmer" ---Dont use bluetooth. Its evil. sheeeer evil i say. Makes you prone to viruses and everything.
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I hope that was tongue-in-cheek? Cos Bluetooth has nothing to do with viruses!
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Bluetooth has nothing to do with viruses? Where'd you hear that? Ever heard of Cabir....?
thermidorthelobster:
--- Quote from: "barnyfarmer" ---Bluetooth has nothing to do with viruses? Where'd you hear that? Ever heard of Cabir....?
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I didn't make the point very well, but Bluetooth doesn't actively "give" you viruses; it's a communications format. You've given an example of a virus which can use Bluetooth to spread, but running Bluetooth on its own isn't going to suddenly give you a virus. It's a bit like saying air gives you viruses; viruses can use air to propagate, but you're not getting the virus just because you're using air, and you wouldn't want to stop using it just in case you got a virus. In practice you take precautions.
And in any case, in order to contract the Cabir virus on your Symbian mobile phone, you have to willingly accept more than one warning message from the phone that something is trying to connect to it and propagate... don't you?
In the context of GPS units, unless you happen to be running satnav on a Symbian mobile phone, I'm not aware of any virus which is likely to affect you, through Bluetooth or otherwise. I'm sure there may be PocketPC viruses which can spread via Bluetooth too but I don't think they're commonplace?
Magnum335:
No not really lol!
I'm not sure if you had to accept the incoming or not, i think alot of people have theirs set to autoaccept, which was how the virus is spread.
Its not a very common thing but it is an unprotected (ie not firewalled) way of annoyances to spread.
Admittedly it is useful but its something to think about, such as the thread topic.
Is everyone of the lelief this is hogwash then?
Range Rover Blues:
Anyway if theiving little scrotes do atart carrying X-ray equipement about it will make them infertile and stop the b*****ds from breeding :)
DiscoveRay:
In my days as a 'sweeper' we used a non-linear junction detector to search for dormant electronics, at £15,000 each, I think it's unlikely to be used by a car thief (unless he's nicked it!).
Ray
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