Can the same type of viruse that infect computers , infect my mobile phone?

I mean: if i have my computer infected by a virus or trojan, and i connect it with my mobile phone [info transfer], can the virus in the computer harm my phone in the same way? OR maybe, as some say, a virus that affects a computer is designed for a computer %26amp; therefore cannot affect a cellphone. Is that true?? Why? Thanx.Can the same type of viruse that infect computers , infect my mobile phone?It is not so simple. :-)



In principle, the phone uses a CPU and an operating system that are different from those used by your PC. So, programs that can run on the PC generally cannot run on the phone.



However, what do you mean exactly by "affect"? I can think of several ways in which a virus running on your PC can "affect" your phone.



First, the simplest thing it can do is prevent your PC from connecting to your phone - either by removing the program(s) it uses for this purpose or by interfering with the work of the PC at a lower level. Then you won't be able to move information from your phone to your PC and vice versa. I'd say, this counts as your phone being "affected".



Second, if the phone looks like an USB drive when connected to your PC (only some phone models can do that and you didn't tell us your phone model), a virus could delete the information on that drive, thus "affecting" the phone.



Third, there are viruses which replicate by copying themselves to the root folder of all removable drives and creating an autorun.inf file there, so that the copy would be automatically executed when that removable drive is mounted to another PC. If your phone looks like a removable drive when attached to your PC, such a virus can copy itself there like this. While the virus won't be able to run on the phone (i.e., technically, the phone won't be infected), it can infect another PC when the phone with the virus is attached to it, if the autoplay feature is enabled on that PC. So, such a virus can use the phone as an infection vector.



Finally, it is perfectly possible to create a multi-platform virus - i.e., a virus which will be able to run both on the PC and on the phone. There have already been primitive experiments in this direction - there are a few PC viruses that drop phone-specific malware to the attached phone. The opposite is also true - there are malicious programs for mobile phones that drop PC-specific malware on the MMC card, so that the card would infect a PC with autoplay enabled, if it is inserted into a card reader attached to that PC.Can the same type of viruse that infect computers , infect my mobile phone?It is true - for the moment.

There will be virusses in the future that will be designed to do this.

At the moment: No. The chances of a virus encountering a mobile phone of a type it can infect are slim. After all, computers don't interface with a lot of different phones all the time. And the computervirus would have to carry several phone-virusses along with it for each type of phone.

Doesn't exist.

Yet :)Can the same type of viruse that infect computers , infect my mobile phone?Yes beacuase mobile devices using windows mobile can suffer from virusses as well because they are designed to work against windows. Just like a flash drive can carry a virus so can a moblie device. Becuaser if it has memory it can store a virus