New Mobile Viruses

[samsungster]

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Growing threat to most of the mobile viruses, worms and trojans are aimed at Symbian's operating system, particularly its Series 60 version, largely because it is used on a majority of smartphones.The more handsets we see with a common open operating system, the more skill the virus developers have and the more damage they can do. Some of the viruses will stop a phone working if they are installed, others try to spread from one phone to another via the Bluetooth short-range radio service. New 10 mobile viruses found: lasco, skulls, cabir, commwarrior, drever, locknut, dampig, mabir, fontal and hobbes.

[jungie]

naa napod anti virus para sa fone

[samsungster]

Trend Micro will become the latest major anti-virus software company to provide protection against mobile phone viruses, with new anti-virus and anti-spam software for mobile phones running the Microsoft Windows Mobile and Symbian's operating systems.The company Monday plans to introduce Trend Micro Mobile Security Version 1.0, and will allow so-called "smart phone" users to download and use the software for free until June 2005. The product contains protections against mobile threats like the recent Skulls Trojan and Cabir worm, as well as filtering for Short Message Service spam, according to a statement.
Trend Micro hopes to attract hordes of new customers who will purchase or receive sophisticated new handsets as gifts during the holiday season, allowing them to install the new Mobile Security product and receive anti-virus updates at no cost until June 30, 2005.
The product works like other anti-virus software, spotting mobile threats using signatures developed by Trend Micro. The software will protect mobile devices from new threats in "real time," as malicious code attempts to install itself on mobile devices. Users can also scan storage devices inserted into supported phones, or initiate scans of the mobile device manually.
New anti-virus and anti-spam signatures can be uploaded to the mobile device using General Packet Radio Service (GPRS), a wireless communication service for connecting mobile phones to the Internet that is common in 3G wireless mdevices. Alternatively, updates can be transferred using Microsoft's Activesync.
Trend Micro's Mobile Security software will support a wide range of devices that run the Windows Mobile 2003 or Symbian OS v.7.0 operating systems. A version of the product for phones running Windows Mobile, including the Motorola MPx200, O2 XPhone and Orange SA SPV C500, is already available. Trend Micro plans to have a version for phones that use the Symbian operating system by January, 2005, including support for the Sony Ericsson Mobile Communications AB P800, P900 and P910, and Motorola A920, A925 and A1000.
Trend Micro will also release a version of the software for mobile phones and PDAs running Windows Mobile 2003 for Pocket PC-Phone Edition in January.
Version 1.0 will expire in June, when the company plans to have a software update available that will add new features including firewall and data encryption features.
Trend Micro is just the latest antivirus company to offer anti-virus software for mobile devices. Symantec announced the availability of Symantec Client Security software for the Nokia 9500 Communicator and the 9300 smart phone model, which use the Symbian operating system.
Finnish anti-virus company F-Secure also sells mobile anti-virus products for consumers and mobile operators. The company has products for phones using Nokia's Series 60 platform and the Nokia 9500 & 9300 Communicator, as well as for Pocket PCs.
Despite the attention from anti-virus companies, most experts agree that mobile phone viruses and worms are in their infancy. The first mobile phone worm, dubbed "Cabir" only appeared in June. Since then, only a handful of new malicious programs that target mobile devices have appeared, and none have spread widely. The new threats include a recent Trojan horse program dubbed "Skulls" that targets devices running the Symbian operating system.
The threat of infection through a mobile device is remote, that mobile device worms and viruses are likely to become more of a problem as a newer generation of phones with advanced networking and software functions is adopted by consumers.
While Cabir tried to spread through Bluetooth wireless connections, future worms and viruses could find other ways to frustrate mobile users, such as opening GPRS links and running up charges, or pushing links to virulent Web pages to phones.
This is going to be a problem that could be as big as the (virus) problem on PCs.
Finally, while SMS spam is not a pressing problem in the U.S., it is a huge problem in Asia and Europe, where text messaging is far more popular.
Trend Micro has not decided on an eventual price for the software or subscription services yet, but the software could eventually be sold through direct downloads, or bundled with services offered by mobile providers.

[Gorl]

i think maayo man kung i reflash lang

[j_puffy]

reflash tabla rasad ug reformat sa PC hehehe!

[Gorl]

reflash tabla rasad ug reformat sa PC hehehe!

Nuon wala ra man sad 10 minutes pag reflash sa phone

[Wyrdo]

if reflashing your phone is like reformatting your pc,won't it have any bad effect on your phone overtime?and loosing all your files in your phone?nangutana ra man ko. and if we get anti-virus,how often should we update it to be sure our phone wont likely be infected with these viruses?

[samamar21]

if reflashing your phone is like reformatting your pc,won't it have any bad effect on your phone overtime?and loosing all your files in your phone?nangutana ra man ko. and if we get anti-virus,how often should we update it to be sure our phone wont likely be infected with these viruses?

bitaw noh! unsaon pag update sa anti virus sa phone!javascript:emoticon('')
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[markyap]

if reflashing your phone is like reformatting your pc,won't it have any bad effect on your phone overtime?and loosing all your files in your phone?nangutana ra man ko. and if we get anti-virus,how often should we update it to be sure our phone wont likely be infected with these viruses?

bad effect over time...no.
all added files...yes, back to brand new state.

if u have antivirus...update it as often as you can

[arnoldsa]

if reflashing your phone is like reformatting your pc,won't it have any bad effect on your phone overtime?and loosing all your files in your phone?nangutana ra man ko. and if we get anti-virus,how often should we update it to be sure our phone wont likely be infected with these viruses?

pretty much like doing a Hard reset on my SAP1. I didn't lose my files because I did a sync first on my computer including the programs I've installed.