way to propagate or needs to wait several years for day x. But, I think, people will replace there devices after 3 or 4 years?
So what? Are you going to throw away everything that was on the old PDA? Or are you going to transfer it to the new one? Remember, meanwhile the virus has infected all applications there and, during HotSync, these infected applications have ended up in the Backup directory of your PC. If you just HotSync the new PDA with that PC (provided that you use the same user name), the virus (all instances of it) will be copied to your new PDA too.
Yes, you can not just put the new device in the cradle and press hotsync - you do it once, and never again :-) You should look in user forums for people asking how to get the T5 working again after they just copied all databases from T3 over to the new device.
Hm, what can a virus on Palm OS harm me?
A virus on Palm OS can do *anything* that is doable programmatically on Palm OS. Ask yourself this question - if you give your PDA to a malicious person and you give him full control of the PDA, what can that malicious person do to harm you? Well, the same things can be done by using a virus as a proxy.
Some trivial examples include: stealing your contact addresses (in order to spam them), stealing your private records, introducing minor random changes in your data (e.g., changing a number in a spreadsheet), etc.
Hm, I still don't fear a virus on my Palm OS. But I'm a programmer, I life with the risk of data trashing on my device every day. You know, Palm OS has no real memory protection and when I test my apps, I do it on my every-day device :-) And I would never put sensible data on an electronic device.
Regards Henk
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