Why Does McAfee Name Python and Visual Basic Script as "Mobile Platforms"?

ZDNet combed through security vendor McAfee’s mobile threat report.

McAfee: Malware going mobile

The list of mobile platforms listed in McAfee’s “Mobile Threats by Platform 2009-2010” puzzles me a lot. It lists:

– Symbian OS
– Java 2 Mobile Edition
– Symbian S60 3rd Edition
– Python
– Android
– WinCE (Windows CE)
– MSIL
– VBS






There’s a couple of oddities in this list as well as a big missing item. The three puzzling items are: Python, MSIL and VBS.

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