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How is it supposed to work?
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Posted: 2003-10-17 14:44:23
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why dont someone just infect their own comp with a virus and send a picture to their phone??
its stupid but its for research..and if u r suggesting that since i asked this why dont i just do it..its cuz i dont know much about computers and so therefore finding a virus would be hard..if u know what i mean..
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Posted: 2003-10-17 15:09:11
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Viruses on phones are "ALMOST" impossible.....obviously you can send SMS ones that confuse muppets who know nothing about mobiles and notes etc.
In terms of Java and Mophun apps ya can't do a virus as they run in a "sandbox" environment like javascipt does for your browser where the programs have limited access to system resources on purpose to prevent any kind of malicious (did I spell that correctly?) damage
you could however make an app that pretended to be a virus but it could not do any damage....as the program would not be allowed to try and del phone nums etc even if it tried
I said almost impossible cos nothing is impossible if you try hard enough
but some things just aint ever gonna work....like perpetual motion
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Posted: 2003-10-17 15:24:52
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I went to SE services center yesterday to services my HBH-30 and I heard the guy next to me complaining his P800 cannot take photo the the services centre guy check on the cam and say nothing wrong with it maybe the phone "got virus".
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Posted: 2003-10-17 17:52:39
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On a T610 a virus is almost impossible, but on phones running an operating system (P800!) I fear it is...
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Posted: 2003-10-17 17:56:38
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So far P800 is the only phone that can get virus. The only virus for T610 is the one that freeze your phone while running the application. You just have to turn on and of the phone and delete the application then everything is ok. Its not a real virus its just enoying when it happen.
[ This Message was edited by: t610 owner on 2003-10-17 17:24 ]
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Posted: 2003-10-17 18:19:56
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The programs ran by mobile phones are so small and simple that it can`t contain a virus.U would not be able to upload it in the phone
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Posted: 2003-10-17 20:52:24
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HI, WHERE I CAN GO ON WEB FOR TAKE A FREE APPLICATION FOR SCAN MY MOBILE PHONE LG FOR DELEITE VIRUS
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Posted: 2005-03-24 10:40:30
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There have been mobile phone viruses, and they affect s60 os predominantly. I've never heard of one infecting the P series phones, but it may be possible.
This link is about the cabir virus:
http://www.pcworld.idg.com.au/index.php/id;1976895769;fp;2;fpid;1
This is interesting too:
http://www.cnet.com.au/mobile[....]nes/0,39025953,40004402,00.htm
They spread by bluetooth, and you have to accept the connection before you can be infected.
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Posted: 2005-03-24 11:29:20
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There is also word of a new one, that goes through your contacts and spreads that way, again it only affects s40/s60 phones, predominately nokia's
But as people have said, the p series has an OS, so it is justs a matter of time, and don't forget all those lovely windows powered phones, and we know how safe windows is
so far the big viruses on phones are, Cabir.a, Cabir.B, and Sculls, and there are a few more stupid ones.
Don't be deluded, because in the future when everything is on the net, viruses are going to be a huge problem, much bigger than now. Especially with things like internet TV, internet radio, Internet in car, internet on the phone.......
[ This Message was edited by: Dyce9984 on 2005-03-24 10:52 ]
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Posted: 2005-03-24 11:51:17
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