New batch of Trojans spreading on Symbian Ltd. smart-phone devices

Well, as technology getting more advance, complication is also getting more complex. I've heard my friend once told me, his cell phone is under attack...(???). I thought he was just joking but then, why not? Now even Antivirus company is catering mobile phone users. Will there be a day where cell phone got corrupted and it needs to be reformat? Wondering...

The first Trojan, identified as SymbOS.Sendtool.A, drops a hack tool that can be used to send malicious programs, such as variants of the SymbOS.PBStealer family of Trojans, to other mobile devices via Bluetooth.

The Trojan horse virus arrives on the compromised device as "Fspreader.SIS." If the user opens this .sis file, the device installer displays a dialog box to warn the user that the application may be coming from an untrusted source and may cause potential problems.

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*Should we just stick with those older-days mobile models?