Is your smart phone infected with malware?

The poll is unscientific, and only 540 people had responded by July 12, which Carboni admits "is not a particularly large sample."However, he added, "I have been monitoring the statistics as responses are entered and the percentage of people reporting they found malware consistently ranged from 15-20 [percent] so 18.1 [percent] seems to be a reasonable number. Likewise the percentage of people who were not scanning ranged consistently from 82-86 [percent]. Based on those numbers, 83 of the 457 people who responded who were not looking for malware would be infected. Ouch."Kelly Jackson Higgins, writing on the , reported that malware targeting smart phones is a rapidly growing threat. The number of malware and spyware programs found on the phones has doubled in the first half of 2010, Higgins wrote on June 7. "Even more worrisome [than the sheer number] is how rapidly these threats are hitting smart phones in comparison to the desktop," Higgins continued. "What took 15 years to evolve with the desktop machine is happening practically overnight in mobile handsets, security experts say."Smart phones, as any user knows, can store vital personal information, including payment data, passwords and stored e-mail and text messages.