Time spend ass covering * hourly rate = mucho dinero #
Posted Monday 25th June 2007 14:30 GMT
nt.
Posted Monday 25th June 2007 14:32 GMT
Sending an MMS per contact in the internal phonebook could quickly add up the cost if 115000 users were indeed infected.
And the administrative cost of all these users trying to reclaim the cost of all these MMS' that they didn't remember sending, could easily pass the 1 Million Euro mark all by itself.
Posted Monday 25th June 2007 14:32 GMT
Moby!
Not again! Wasn't this send the way of 'Lapy' or am I wrong?
It certainly should be!
Posted Monday 25th June 2007 14:45 GMT
It's been such a long Monday that even the weakest of Monty Pyhton references will make me laugh
Posted Monday 25th June 2007 15:24 GMT
If this thing spreads via MMS as well as via bluetooth as the information on f-secure.com and o2.com tends to suggest, then it's costing *someone* a lot of money. There are roughly 300 phone numbers and e-mail addresses in my phone's contact list. At 0.30€ a pop that's about 90€ if ever I were stupid enough to accept and install something that came unsolicited out of the blue.
Posted Monday 25th June 2007 18:34 GMT
...it's the bleeding spanish moby inquisition they don't suspect, innit?
Sheesh. No wonder civilisation is going to the dogs if we can't even preserve our cultural heritage right. What's it gonna be next? "This is an ex-duck"? "And now for something moderately similar"? "Nudge, nudge, wink, wink, say the first thing that comes into your head"?
As Shakespeare would have said, "To be or to snuff it? Wot-evva!"
Bah, hambug!
Posted Monday 25th June 2007 23:12 GMT
it's a bored script-kiddie, not a virus writer
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