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Scary isn't it?
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Posted: 2006-01-04 20:30:50
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Quote:On 2006-01-04 20:30:50, whizkidd wrote:
Scary isn't it? Yeah, i did heard and read about these SymbOS viruses, some people said it's not true or a myth. But obviously you can see it's not my boy-friend being a victim to one but lucky he caught it in time (thanks to me!)
I've have a SET610 so don't need to worry about these "mobile viruses" unless i decide to upgrade to a Nokia!
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[ This Message was edited by: Frubin on 2006-01-04 19:38 ]
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Posted: 2006-01-04 20:34:52
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The symbian virus is not restricted to Nokias per-se...its only that most series 60 phones are made by Nokia Even samsung and siemens amongst others make series 60 devices. These viruses are capable of infecting any series 60 device be it nokia or samsung!
Even the SE p-series is "symbian"..although it runs on a different version called "UIQ" No viruses have been reported for Symbian UIQ so far...lets hope it stays that way..
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Posted: 2006-01-04 20:42:10
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On 2006-01-04 20:42:10, whizkidd wrote:
The symbian virus is not restricted to Nokias per-se...its only that most series 60 phones are made by Nokia Even samsung and siemens amongst others make series 60 devices. These viruses are capable of infecting any series 60 device be it nokia or samsung!
Even the SE p-series is "symbian"..although it runs on a different version called "UIQ" No viruses have been reported for Symbian UIQ so far...lets hope it stays that way..
Yeah, most new phones are now based on the SymbOS system which leave them vunerable to these SymbOS viruses.
I done a search on google "symbian phones" and can't believe the list of SymbOs viruses that came up!
SymbOS/Blankfont
SymbOS.Drever
SymbOS/Bootton
SymbOS.Doomboot
SymbOS.Hidmenu
SymbOS/Onehop
SYMBOS_FONTAL
SYMBOS_CARDTRP
SymbOS/Cadomesk
SymbOS.Skuller
SymbOS.Cardblock
SymbOS/MultiDropper
These all have variants as well: SymbOs.*.*
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[ This Message was edited by: Frubin on 2006-01-04 20:04 ]
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Posted: 2006-01-04 20:55:25
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Symbian OS has been subject to a variety of viruses, the best known of which is Cabir. Usually these send themselves from phone to phone by Bluetooth. So far, none have taken advantage of any flaws in Symbian OS - instead, they have all asked the user whether they would like to install the software, with somewhat prominent warnings that it can't be trusted.
However, of course, the average mobile phone user shouldn't have to worry about such things, so Symbian OS 9 is adopting a capability model. Installed software will theoretically be unable to do damaging things (such as costing the user money by sending network data) without being digitally signed - thus making it traceable. Developers can apply to have their software signed via the Symbian Signed program
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Posted: 2006-01-05 04:22:18
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Luckily my N70 came with Symantec Antivirus. Phew! and i thought 'Virus on my moble? Are you friggin kidding me!!!'
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Posted: 2006-01-05 07:40:51
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it`s not hard to eliminate the cabir virus, my friend had it and the only aplications i used were fexplorer and appmanager, you just need to find the process with appman and kill it, then find the sis file using fexplorer and delete it`. after that every thing worked fine again
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Posted: 2006-01-22 00:25:11
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