Monday, December 29, 2008

Wireless worms may spread in the same manner as flu

Software worms may spread between Bluetooth-enabled mobiles in the same manner as flu viruses in humans, say researchers.

Christopher Rhodes, an expert on infectious diseases at Imperial College London, joined Maziar Nekovee, a researcher at BT's research lab in Suffolk, UK, to create a mathematical model to discern how a wireless computer worm could spread between portable devices.

The researchers involved a crowd of people carrying Bluetooth-enabled smartphones in their study. The participants had to move in a straight line, and at a fixed speed.

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