Music-player virus

We're seeing the future, and it's not pretty. Cellphone viruses have been in the news, but this is the first report I've seen of MP3 players getting infected. It's not good because people connect their computers and music players to move music around. The news, however, comes from Asia, and this time the problem is restricted to a player, the 5BG Creative Zen Neeon, that's only sold there. The virus is Wullik.B, which first appeared early last year, spreading through Windows PCs via email, CNET reports. "According to antivirus companies, it's unlikely - although not impossible - that users will transfer the worm from an infected Neeon to their computer. For a PC to be potentially infected, a Neeon user would have to connect their MP3 player to the computer, browse the files and copy the worm to the PC's hard drive." On the phone front, the BBC reports that anti-virus protection is coming. Finnish security firm F-Secure has created the software for cellphones, which will soon go on sale in the UK. "In recent months, more viruses for mobile phones and variants of old ones have started to appear," says the BBC, but so far only on about 10% of them - on smartphones using the Symbian operating system and spreading via the Bluetooth short-range radio system on these phones. "Infection can be avoided by turning off Bluetooth on smart phones." [Smartphones are next-gen phones with multimedia features, e.g. email, Web browser, camera, calendar, music, etc.]