According to a story, F-Secure has reported that about 400 mobile phone viruses exist have been detected.

The results of the poll were rather interesting.

"Have you experienced any type of mobile phone virus?"

There were a total of 133 votes.

- YES, 24% (32 votes)
- NO, 62% (82 votes)
- NOT SURE, 14% (19 votes)

While the results did not cover a massive amount of users, I feel it received a decent amount of results for all to take a look at. The surge in votes came from the AFP article which mentioned this site.

With the daily advancements in the mobile arena, it's only a matter of time until the same issues which plaque the computer world begin to grab hold of popular mobile devices.

The mobile devices are gaining features which allow their users to perform more advanced functions without being tethered to their desktop or laptop computers.

Not only are the issues of viruses foreseen, but other common issues as MMS (text message) spam may be on the horizon.

Web-enabled cell phones are the new frontier for viruses. Expect hackers to increase their assaults on handsets that use Windows Mobile, Symbian and Palm OS, the most common operating systems.

New phone models will be especially virus prone, particularly the next version of the iPhone and a phone to be developed using Google's technology. Rather than run on closed networks as iPhone does now, they'll be on open networks to let users access the entire World Wide Web as well as other vendors' games, retail sites and additional software applications.

Experts are warning of a new worm spreading across mobile networks via Symbian phones.

The worm is similar to the CommWarrior mobile virus, and initially fooled researchers into believing that it was not new.

However, it is actually a new class of mobile virus which spreads via file extensions named 'beauty.jpg', 'sex.mp3' and 'love.rm'.

"We first thought that this was a CommWarrior clone," said Guillaume Lovet, threat response manager at Fortinet.