At a London WLAN conference a fake network pushed viruses, worms: According to this ZDNet article (which relies on comments from a single individual who works for a reliable company that sells corporate Wi-Fi monitoring tools), a fake network set up at the Wireless LAN Event in London last week pushed 45 "random" viruses and worms to users when they connected. The article claims that the viruses were "randomly" generated, but that isn't a realistic description of how viruses work.
I was there. I saw the BTOpenzone and T-Mobile networks.
I received no viruses.
THe comments sound like BS to me. The quality of the WLAN Event attendees is much higher than most. I did not notice any "suspicious" characters wandering around.
PhilB
actually if you use a virus generation toolkit, they sometimes allow for a random selection of features to create viruses without any input whatsoever. A lovely tool for those brilliant script kiddies who completely lack any creativity