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http://www.theregister.co.uk/2005/04/06/mobile_killer_trojan/
Mobile Trojan kills smart phones
By John Leyden
Published Wednesday 6th April 2005 16:42 GMT
Virus writers have created a mobile Trojan capable of rendering an infected Symbian Series 60 unusable. Fontal-A is a SIS file Trojan that installs a corrupted font file on the device, causing it to fail when the mobile phone is next rebooted.
Fontal-A is a Trojan, incapable of spreading by itself or via Bluetooth. The small risk of infection applies only to people in the habit of installing warez mobile games files or the like onto their mobile phone.
As well as installing a corrupted font file, Fontal-A also damages the application manager so that it cannot be uninstalled. No new applications can be installed until the phone is disinfected. If the user has attempted to reboot the phone the only way to disinfect it is to reformat a mobile device, according to preliminary advice by anti-virus firm F-Secure. It warns that reformatting the phone will cause all data on the mobile to be lost. ®
[ This Message was edited by: din007 on 2005-04-06 20:59 ]
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Posted: 2005-04-06 21:58:56
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HAHAHA! I am allways happier with a SE uiq phone when I hear such stories! Poor nokia fools!
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Posted: 2005-04-06 22:02:00
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perhaps a bit of common sense to add to this excelelnt piece of journalism:
all current Symbian viruses including the one in the article are .sis files, that you need to install yourself manually onto your phone first.
Just be vigilant, do not acept applications that you did not ask for, not even if you know the sender, and you should be just fine
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Posted: 2005-04-06 22:03:00
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Rule of thumb!!!
Always make a full backup before you install anything...
Even non-warez software can mess-up your phone.
Be safe not sorry.
Wear a condon
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Posted: 2005-04-06 22:11:06
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i tried the "f-cabir" virus on my p910i, but the phone says, it is not an application for this device, so no need to be careful
also this doesn't means noone would create an uiq virus, we wish to be happy with our p-series
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Posted: 2005-04-06 22:36:10
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'HAHAHA! I am allways happier with a SE uiq phone when I hear such stories! Poor nokia fools!'
It wouldn't be at all difficult to convert the code to run on UIQ...
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Posted: 2005-04-06 22:38:13
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So... anyone here that was infected with this virus?
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Posted: 2005-04-06 22:48:15
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'HAHAHA! I am allways happier with a SE uiq phone when I hear such stories! Poor nokia fools!'
Viruses are written for Series 60 because of the large number of users, not because it's more vulnerable than UIQ.
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Posted: 2005-04-07 02:39:00
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Well, what fool installs software that he gets beamed??
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Posted: 2005-04-07 12:29:50
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Some of these viruses can spread by sending themselves as MMS to all contacts from a phone....... just like windows!
People are more prone to open items received from people they know I guess...... then again the absolute number of infected phones remains very low
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Posted: 2005-04-07 14:18:35
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