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First Destructive Mobile Phone Virus In The Wild

Posted by timothy on from the radio-silence dept.

gbjbaanb writes "eek! the BBC is reporting the first mobile phone virus that causes damage is out and about. The virus only works with the Symbian Series 60's OS (no, not the Smartphone) and spreads through an adapted copy of the legitimate Mosquitos game. Once installed, a hidden program sends SMS texts to premium rate numbers. That's not so bad, no doubt the premium rate numbers will be switched off soon but the worst is yet to come - "typically we see them in the wild then copycat ones come along soon after," said Sal Viveros, director of wireless security at McAfee."

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  1. Re:Nokia vs. motocrap by Tongo · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Speaking of the ring and vibrate at the same time. WHY THE FUCKING SHIT do they have it ring once or twice before vibrating on the newer phones. Like the parent said, you'll be listening to music, it'll vibrate once and by the time you can answer it, the call has gone to voicemail. FFS how hard is it to do both at the same time?!?!?

  2. Re:Nokia vs. motocrap by wo1verin3 · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    My Samsung A520 has a vibrate with no ring, and a vibrate with ring... take your pic.