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Viruses on mobiles are very serious.
And my future vision of mobileviruses is that they could do more personal damage.
Example. A virus that calls expensive pay-numbers...
A virus that changes your pin-codes
A virus that steal info from your phone (Today they contaion mail, contacts, visacard numbers, and more)
Yes. Today the threat is nonexistant. I am working much with antivirus solutions and maybe gets a bit paranoid. But I know what a piece of software can do... and that means everything that YOU can do.
The future of this will be interesting too see, but also a bit shitty.
And it doesn't hurt to be a bit in advance.
I just recall thoose days when there was hoax spreading around telling about a new supervirus that was activated even when only opening a mail and without opening the attachement... Even I laughed then.
But it is very interesting to see how ppl respond to this kind of news.
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Posted: 2004-06-16 07:58:51
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this worm is pretty crap! the list that finbom says are the things that i am worried about!
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Posted: 2004-06-16 08:33:27
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and on the BBC news website...
First mobile phone virus created
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Posted: 2004-06-16 10:03:08
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Fsecure has confirmed this worm.
more info and some screenshots here.
http://www.f-secure.com/v-descs/cabir.shtml
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Posted: 2004-06-16 10:07:46
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I can't imagine your GPRS bill after installing an Antivirus; Updates OTA everyday!
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Posted: 2004-06-16 10:21:20
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In England, I just found out about a new virus from the radio. It effects any pc or phone! Dont know wh@ it called but I know it changes os in many formats! Is this true or is it just the media hyping it all up 2 stop ppl from going on-line?
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Posted: 2004-06-16 12:27:00
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Im sure its a hype from media.
A virus is just a piece of software. And software only works on the system it is written for.
There are only two ways that I can see for a virus to work on multi-platforms. Java or macro-viruses. Java and (word)-macros do work on many platforms. But to make any real damage the virus still must communicate with other parts of the system, and thats where it would fail.
Regards, Finbom
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Posted: 2004-06-16 12:32:39
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Nice on, I thought it was hype!
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Posted: 2004-06-16 12:43:00
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On 2004-06-16 07:58:51, finbom wrote:
I just recall thoose days when there was hoax spreading around telling about a new supervirus that was activated even when only opening a mail and without opening the attachement... Even I laughed then.
You mean on symbian phone, cause on pc it's true
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Posted: 2004-06-16 12:53:14
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Don't worry about this, I'm certinately not!
1. Its proof of concept writing by an anti-virus company
2. It requires user intervention to get on to your phone, i.e., the user has to press buttons and accept the incoming file.
A few years ago there was a virus in the wild for Palms... and it stopped there.
Actually, a virus for Symbian is kind of good. It means Symbian is popular enough for people to actually bother writing a virus for it.. even though its only proof of concept
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Posted: 2004-06-16 13:19:22
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