The shift in Internet use from being largely computer-based to being more mobile-based has caused new fears to arise over whether phones are more susceptible to viruses than their non-mobile counterparts. Just this week, Honolulu-based ABC affiliate KITV reported on the dangers of mobile malware to unsuspecting consumers.

“Think of a smartphone as a computer in your pocket,” Attila Seress, owner of SOS Tech Solutions in Honolulu, told viewers. “Adware…may take that information and siphon it off to a third party in a far away country. And then they can use that for identity theft.”