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I dont know if you have that there is a new mobile virus affecting mobile phones now in the UK (mainly the Symbian series phones)
This is the article what was written in the Mobile Phone Virus Forum:
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Posted on Monday, June 27 @ 13:34:48 EDT by scribles
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The most prolific mobile phone virus named commwarrior has today been detected for the first time in the UK.
On the 27 of June
http://www.Mobilephonevirus.com received a cry for help from mobile phone user Kathryn Wilson of Essex. Kathryn had recently returned from a summer holiday cruising around the Mediterranean. Whilst on the ship her phone started to receive constant prompts to accept a file from an anonymous phone. After declining to accept the file all morning she eventually accepted it. Her phone then displayed the message installing Commwarrior.
On retuning home Kathryn started to notice that the credit on her Nokia 6600 was being used up very quickly. She also noticed that her phone seemed to be constantly trying to send messages. On checking her sent items list she discovered that her phone had been sending MMS messages to all the people in her phone book. Commwarrior had struck.
Commwarrior works by trying to send itself by Bluetooth to any phone in the vicinity. The files that Comwarrior sends are named with random file names, so that users cannot be warned to avoid files with any given name. In addition of spreading over Bluetooth the Commwarrior will also read the users local address book for phone numbers, and start sending MMS messages containing the Commwarrior file.
Kathryn said “I knew something was wrong when my friends started to ask me what the file was that I had sent to them. I didn’t even know I had sent anything to them.” She added, "now some of my mates have been infected and they can’t seem to stop their phones from sending it on to their contacts. It’s a nightmare!”
Mobilephonevirus.com managed to point Kathryn in the direction of an anti virus tool that will remove the commwarrior virus. Founder Sam Blakeman said, “When I spoke to Kathryn it became evident that this was the first confirmed case of commwarrior in the UK. I quickly got in touch and told her how to remove the virus. My only concern is that Kathryn manages to get this information out to her other friends so we can stop commwarrior before it spreads.” He Added, Mobilephonevirus.com offers a free alert service to inform people of any virus outbreaks and how to remove them if they are infected. We hope that in providing this service we can reduce the problems that people like Kathryn suffered.
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A virus called 'Comwarrior' is now affecting Symbian Series 60 Mobile Phones; the virus attempts to spread via MMS messages and Bluetooth. As MMS messages can be sent worldwide, CommWarrior has a greater reach than viruses that spread using the short-range Bluetooth technology.
CommWarrior infects the telephone directory software in the Nokia handsets.
It randomly selects one directory profile at a time and sends a copy of itself to that person. It can be sent to any kind of wireless gadget or computer, but if that device does not run the Symbian Series 60 software, it will not be infected. A recipient also has to accept and download CommWarrior in order for the Trojan to launch itself.
Here are some useful weblinks that relate to the message above.
F-Secure:
http://www.f-secure.com/v-descs/commwarrior.shtml
ZDNet:
http://news.zdnet.co.uk/hardw[....]ile/0,39020360,39190552,00.htm
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[ This Message was edited by: Frubin on 2005-07-01 22:21 ]
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Posted: 2005-07-01 22:43:33
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that seems to be quite old news, from 3 or 4 months ago
First mobile phone virus found in messaging
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Posted: 2005-07-01 22:46:57
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