Wednesday, March 09, 2005

Mobile phone Virus thru MMS

A new cellphone virus The CommWarrioe is out in the open. We've seen mobile phone virus spread thru Bluetooth and attaching itself to files like pictures and tones, now this new one sends itself thru Bluetooth and MMS. Once infected the virus will randomly select a contact in the phone's phonebook and will send itself using MMS. Since the receipient will assume that the MMS came from a trusted source, they will open the file and the process is repeated again. This virus/trojan will travel slow since it cannot distinguish landline numbers from cellphone numbers and it only (again) infects Symbian OS phones. It will not damage your phone but can lead to it hanging and your bills shoot up because of the MMS.

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