A spokesman at Sophos, the largest anti-virus company in the world, was quoted yesterday: "Some of the anti-virus vendors have been very busy hyping up the Symbian virus threat. The simple fact is that Sophos has never received a single report from any customer hit by one of these things - it seems they're mostly spreading by anti-virus researchers sending them to each other."

Which seems about right from my own analysis. Sophos have also done a little write up on the 'threat', though it's not quite as well informed from a Symbian point of view (i.e. contrary to their advice, you can stay 'discoverable' if you want to without worrying about infection).

So when a news site, or friend, or colleague steps up to warn you about viruses spreading through the mobile world, politely tell them that this info is blatantly misleading. To say the least!