First Symbian OS virus to replicate over MMS

Shachaf writes "A new virus, CommWarrior.a, is the first to replicate over MMS (Multimedia Message Service). From the article: 'Multimedia Message Service (MMS) is a more advanced version of the Short Message Service (SMS) familiar to users of GSM based handsets around the world, and allows rich content such as pictures, sounds, video, and applications to be sent as well as text.', and '"With MMS messages typically costing between $0.25 and $1.00 CommWarrior could prove expensive to anyone unlucky enough to be infected by it. As the virus runs silently in the background it could be quite some time before the user becomes aware of the potentially hundreds of MMS messages that have been sent," said Aaron Davidson, CEO of SimWorks.'"

Comments

Well

[Anonymous Coward]

It's a good thing I have no friends then.

Viruses

[zecg]

Anti-virus software is a sign of platform's maturity... a sort of an OS Bar Mitzvah. There are probably Nokia engineers working on new worms, tightly collaborating with their anti-virus engineers.

Re:LOL

[WormholeFiend]

Here's an old school idea that doesn't get viruses and doesn't cost nearly as much.

Ha! When I was your age, "old school" meant using a rotary dial, pulse landline.

Well at least there's one alternative

[PsychicX]

Get a Windows CE phone :)

Re:If the virus sends a relatively uniform...

[Capt'n Hector]

"Doesn't really seem right to charge users for something like that, espicially the less savvy who might not know-any-better."

Yeah, god forbid a cellphone company take advantage of unsavvy customers....

Time to rob the rich and give to the...rich

[CDOS_CDOS run]

What was Paris's #, I need to send her a mms message.

Re:another good reason to have a simple cellphone

[Anonymous Coward]

Actually, we laugh at you for OTHER reasons, but if you want to believe it's your crappy phone, go ahead.

Re:another good reason to have a simple cellphone

[kamileon]

A lot of people laugh at me for using a manual typewriter and correction fluid, and sending letters via snail mail, but I've never gotten a virus. Except when my aunt Chloe sneezed on that postcard.... Guess there are some benefits after all. ^_^

(Sure, you're safer, but most people prefer functionality over safety. I'll keep my WAP browser and Bluetooth contact synchronization, thank you very much, even with the gaping hole in Bluetooth.)