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In theory it is possible to get viruses on mobile phones. If you check websites such as McAfee, there is actually info on mobile phone viruses, however, to date, they've all been hoaxes. (Lets hope it stays that way.)
Im not sure how a virus could possibly be sent in a text message, as all these contain are text, however, now with MMS it may be possible, also through GPRS...
Who knows
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Posted: 2004-10-08 01:16:21
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This was the message: "I have taken control of your phone..... Enjoy your ride..... Jacking begins in 5 mins...... FROM JACKAR" The second message was: " Retrieving your info AUC-09#1869BAR90081CD*# Thank you rahul.a (#airtel) From JACKAR" rahul is my real name and airtel is my service provider. The name rahul was stored in my phones contact list.
This message was posted from a T230
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Posted: 2004-10-08 01:27:00
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i'm sure its a prank...
or a wap push message of some sort.
take it to an se centre whizz..
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Posted: 2004-10-08 06:20:49
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@Plasma:
even I have recieved the same msg as whiz, "your mobile has been jacked...." imm after that i deleted that msg and restarted the phone but i never recieved the other msg...hopefully i will not as i have deleted the previous one.
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Posted: 2004-10-08 06:46:35
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it must be a sw issue... anyway.. i dont think the message can be clever enuf to read ifo from your phone... old 3310,3330 and 315 had a restarter virus.. i have it my 230 now so as to send to friends.. the message once recieved canot be opened and the phone restarts... the option is to put your sim in another phone and delete it.. you cannot do so in a 230... the message is stored in phone memory rather than sim.. if you get the option of save on sim.. then you can change sims and delete the message..(considering that is the issue...) else try a master reset.... then try to access the service menu and c if the error log has increased.... did you try taking it to
centre??
P.S. if anybody needs the restater virus that works with 3310/.3330/3315.. pm me and i will send it to you...
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Posted: 2004-10-08 07:08:26
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what does the phone sw have to do with a mysterious text?
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Posted: 2004-10-08 08:43:00
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Yea,i dont think it has something to do with sw,and it was received by a lot of people around his area .
This message was posted from a T610
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Posted: 2004-10-08 11:25:51
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@ mjdub i know the price of s700 in us as it is all over the net........what i was asking was its price in india
This message was posted from a Nokia
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Posted: 2004-10-08 13:47:09
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@ice: its 33600 /-
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Posted: 2004-10-08 13:51:58
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The recent - CARIBE virus can be transmitted thru:
1. Bluetooth
2. Infra Red
3. SMS
4. MMS
In order to be safe, just don't open the details, just 'delete' it at once !
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Posted: 2004-10-08 16:15:06
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