TamsPalm – the Palm OS / web OS Blog

Hi! I recently discussed this same idea in my Palm blog posting:

http://palmdiscovery.netfirms.com/nfblog/index.php?p=206

Even if a Windows or other platform virus like Symbian gets in a Palm, it’s unlikely (unless the virus writer has made it to work in the Palm OS environment) that it will do much harm on the Palm. If we can recall, Palm can only recognise prc and pdb files. All other extensions are unknown to them.

I agree with Donald. I download email from my ISP directly to my Treo 650. Naturally, I get spam that is loaded with viruses – the attachments are filed on the SD card which doesn’t bother me, but as soon as I connect the Treo to my work PC as a flash drive, the company anti-virus scans the disk, finds the virus and sends off messages to the IT dept saying there’s a virus infection.

This never makes me popular.

There are 4 Other reasons why Antivirus is useless on a PDA

A Suspicious PRC file is easier to detect, there are far less files in a PDA, and most don’t have folders.

A PDA is backed up more then a PC.

The worst virus will have to be one that erases the small ROM(I don’t think thats going to happen)

A Palm User that gets a little too expermental causes more data loss (like “what will happen if I uncheck “resource database” in Filez, or “what happens if I delete psyslaunchdatabase”…)

I reported a problem to Verizon about my Treo 700p. I could not e-synch to my third party network and the screen control was not responding. I did a hard reset about 4 o 5 times , hot synched each time,and then I realized that the virus thing(probably came over an email) had changed all my time and location settings to los angeles and the hour with a coma not a colon and no date even though I chose auto set on the reboot. There was a little cartoon car that drove accross the time and date area of the screen one time that I saw ( I am not crazy ). I did hard reset again, set everything back to my location and auto set for US time and date and then hot synched, problem gone.Norton did not see this virus when I scanned the Palm Desktop. Verizon suggested a hard reset in a later response to my email.

Thank you.That was the little stinker car! I just started using the Versamail and I must have clicked on an attachment by accident. I have had to hard reset the 700p about once a month scince I got it. The main problem is it gets stuck in a loop. I don’t know how my time and zone settings got so messed up, but it just is another shrimp on the problem barbie i guess. Thanks

Everything was deleted. I wish I could have someone figure it out.I don’t know I accidently opened two easter eggs that I did not know even existed.I found the other easter egg on prefs power settings lower right corner and found online to draw counterclockwise around it to erase it.But the taxi went accross my main view of my phone app after my time zone changed to show no date an the hour with a comma.Thanks anyway-roy

Hi Tam,
Sorry, I freaked and wiped everything clean, it also had turned on the little easter egg easter egg that I drew counter clockwise around it with the stylus to make it go away. I will try to keep a cop if I get another.

Best regards,
Roy

Now the digitiser has to be rest every couple of days. The screen starts to be unresponsive and I have to use the button controls to get to Prefs, and as soon as I get to prefs the digitiser target comes on by it self. Sometimes I have to go through about two or three resets on the digitiser before it takes.
I bet it all will come down to third party issues. Palm will probably have it worked out when they get to the 1000 series Treos? Best-R