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Mobile Phone VirusesClick on any of the headings below for more information on a particular subject. Game Virus bites Mobile Phones - A mobile phone "virus" inside a pirated copy of a game called Mosquitos is roaming file-sharing and software download sites, say security experts. The game only works on certain phones running on Symbian OS Series 60. Once the illegally cracked game is installed a hidden program, called a Trojan, sends unauthorised SMS texts... First Mobile Phone Virus Created - The first ever computer virus spread by mobile phones has been sent to anti-virus firms. No infections have been reported and the worm is harmless but it is proof that mobiles are at risk from virus writers. The worm, known as Cabir, infects phones and devices running the Symbian operating system... Hoax Warnings - This hoax message reportedly caused panic among Lebanon cell phone users. Here's the original hoax message: ATTENTION!!! NOW THERE IS A VIRUS ON MOBILE PHONE SYSTEM... Virus Descriptions : Lasco.A - Lasco.A is a bluetooth using worm and SIS file infecting virus that runs in Symbian mobile phones that support Series 60 platform. Lasco.A replicates over bluetooth connections and arrives to phone messaging inbox as velasco.sis file that contains the worm. When user clicks the velasco.sis and chooses to install the velasco.sis file the worm activates and starts looking for new devices to infect over bluetooth... Cell Phone Virus Threat Real? - Malicious programs that can delete address books. Junk messages that flood a cell phone's inbox. Stealthy code that uses Bluetooth wireless technology to sneak onto handsets. Scared yet? Security experts say plagues like these will target mobile phones, but others contend cell phone viruses are the tech equivalent of smallpox: To the best of anyone's knowledge, they exist only in labs... Phone Virus Writers Keep Eye on Big Picture - Another mobile phone virus has been developed, according to reports by anti-virus and Internet security firms. Mabir.A is aimed at the Symbian operating system running on Nokia Series 60 smartphones... Mobile safety at your fingertips - A total of eight viruses, both new strains and variants, emerged and one malicious program, called Cabir, was found in a 17th country. The trend continued in the first two weeks of April with the discovery of the Mabir, Fontal and Hobbes viruses... Fast moving Phone viruses appear - The risk of being infected by Cabir is low because users must give the malicious program permission to download on to their handset and then must manually install it. Users can protect themselves by altering a setting on Symbian phones that conceals the handset from other Bluetooth using devices... Smartphones suffer Skulls attack - Owners of some Nokia smartphones are being warned to watch out for malicious wallpaper. Those downloading the software could find all the icons on their 7610 phone swapped for images of skulls. When installed the malicious program also locks many of the 7610's functions making it hard to use and harder to repair. The program is only the latest in a series of viruses produced to attack mobile phones... Latest Mobiles open to attack - Delegates at the conference are to be shown a demonstration of security flaws found in the Java 2 Micro edition or J2ME software, jointly developed by Sun Microsystems, Nokia, Sony Ericsson and Motorola. It is supplied with those companies' latest smartphones and PDA phones. Experts say the flaw lies in the way Java tries to keep the operating system from accepting commands from outside... We hope you have found our articles on Phone Viruses useful and are able to put the info to good use. We will continue to update this section with virus articles that we hope you will enjoy so please check back regularly. |
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