Android Gets Its First Ever Virus–You're a Mandroid, My Son (Updated)

Nurse, the screens, please. Android’s got itself a nasty little virus–its first. It goes by the name of Trojan-SMS.AndroidOS.FakePlayer-A, says Kaspersky Lab, the firm that detected it, and it takes the form of a media player. A media player is most d…

Nurse, the screens, please. Android's got itself a nasty little virus--its first. It goes by the name of Trojan-SMS.AndroidOS.FakePlayer-A, says Kaspersky Lab, the firm that detected it, and it takes the form of a media player. A media player is most definitely what it isn't, however. Once on your smartphone, it fires off SMSes to premium-rate phone numbers, sending your phone bill through the roof, as well as a share of the profits from the line owners to the nasty bugmakers.The virus has, so far, only affected Android users in Russia but, as the Google-developed OS increases its market share, expect the amount of malware and viruses to increase worldwide--don't forget last month's nasty little wallpaper app that harvested users' private data, and today's report from the BBC outlining just how simple it is to create and pass on a smartphone virus.