Computer v. phone data

[king1]

no more than usual...

Just confirming I understand correctly - did you mean that the computer stays as safe as usual when the insecure phone is connected to the same modem as the computer?

Thanks

yes, the phone won't really introduce any extra insecurities to the PC that weren't already there...

To elaborate...  in reality, I would suggest the phone is probably somewhat more secure assuming it is reasonably up to date, because as a rule the user does not generally have administrator rights, whereas with PCs, the user generally does have administrator rights - and administrator rights is generally what net nasties need to do their business... 

Exceptions to this being 
1. net nasties can also utilize exploits of various types that will elevate user permissions to administrator rights which they wouldn't otherwise have...
2. and the end user is usually the greatest weakness