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DJcreamz Posts: 463

As found on "silicon.com" may intrest some people.

A new variant of the Skulls Trojan horse that affects Symbian mobile phones has been discovered.

F-Secure reported on Monday that this new version, called Skulls.D, kills off all system applications in the same manner as previous variants. But rather than turning individual application icons into skulls, Skulls.D tells users they have been infected by displaying a full-screen flashing skull.

Users who have been infected cannot run programs, take pictures or send text messages, although they can still make phone calls. The Trojan also prevents users from installing new applications, so the majority of infected users will need to reset their phone. This will leave the phone in its default factory condition and delete any data such as address books.

F-Secure has only had reports of Skulls.D from two users, who were infected after downloading an application from a web forum. Mikko Hyppönen, the director of antivirus research at F-Secure said that users can reduce the risk of being infected by exercising caution.

"Be careful about what you download and where you download it from," said Hyppönen. "You are most at risk if you are downloading illegal copies of applications, especially from peer to peer networks."

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Posted: 2005-01-10 15:14:48
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frontman Posts: 381

So how long will it be before we must all carry a version of a mobile AV application do you think? Probably not that long!
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Posted: 2005-01-10 15:27:36
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djkizlive Posts: > 500

It's already available for PocketPC, so sooner than you think! Beware!

-djkizlive
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Posted: 2005-01-10 15:31:33
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DJcreamz Posts: 463

yer ur right, but i cant see this being a major problem not in the near future anyway this sounds more like a virus writter doing it for leisure, see'ing if he can write a virus for the symbian platform, ive also read about a virus designed to travel via bluetooth it also infects all avaliable bluetooth devices in range, this was actually written by a anti virus programmer to see if it was possible, i spose you can take comfort in knowing u have to actualy install the virus urself there is no way to be automaticly infected... as of yet anyway... i dont think this is a problem at all but mite make people a bit more vigulant wen installing applications downloaded form the above mentioned places.
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Posted: 2005-01-10 15:33:33
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frontman Posts: 381

Makes me laugh. I reckon we should just invent big phone condoms.
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Posted: 2005-01-10 15:34:34
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DJcreamz Posts: 463

lol funny u should say because i once ....................... actualy better keep that to myself
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Posted: 2005-01-10 15:38:35
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frontman Posts: 381

Quote:On 2005-01-10 15:38:35, DJcreamz wrote:
lol funny u should say because i once ....................... actualy better keep that to myself

Lol...
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Posted: 2005-01-10 15:50:56
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djkizlive Posts: > 500

I think his name says it all.. 'DJcreamz'

I say no more

-djkizlive
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Posted: 2005-01-10 16:04:04
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laffen Posts: > 500

F-Secure has written about new mobile phone viruses daily during the last couple of weeks. Should not be long before the tabloid press picks this up.

http://www.f-secure.com/weblog/
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Posted: 2005-01-10 16:14:45
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clubberkiduk Posts: 212

there is already a antivirus program for symbian phones on my-symbian, it is officialy recogniced by sony ericsson
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Posted: 2005-01-10 16:24:49
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