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Folks please don't get worried about a Kindle virus. After speaking with Mc Affee Anti Virus they tell me that they have not seen one and do not expect to see one for quite some time. Troubble is that the Kindle does not yet have the prelevance in the market to make it a worthwile target. While it is true that when you commute back and forth to work most of the electronic readers you see will be Kindle's and even if you don't have a Kindle people think that your reader is automatically a Kindle even if its a Nook, Nook Color or a Kobo. Kindle does not have the market penetration that Apple's products do or the prelevance that PCs and Microsoft software does in the market.
This has its good parts and bad parts. The bad part is that the Kindle is not as prelevant out there as one would like it to be but there is an upside - If I am a virus writter I am probably not going to bother writting a virus for a Kindle yet its not a high profile target yet. I am probably going to devote my time and efforts to a larger taget like a PC or Mac then a Kindle. So don't worry about a Kindle virus.
And no a Kindle can not be used to spread a PC or Mac virus becuase a Kindle does not work on either the Windows or Mac OS and to hide in a Kindle the virus needs to be written for the Kindle and that has not happened as yet. So don't worry about that as yet. Viri don't get around via electronic book readers as yet they typically move around via - sneaker net, floppy disks, downloading from internet, CDs, DVDs or USB drives.
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