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New mobile phone virus spreads two ways

A Brazilian virus writer has unleashed a new mobile phone virus, called Lasco.A, that is capable of spreading both through the short-range wireless Bluetooth technology and by attaching itself to files, according to the Finnish antivirus company F-Secure Corp.

“This is the first time we have come across a mobile phone virus that has two spreading mechanisms,” Mikko Hypp

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