New virus attacks mobile phones using Symbian OS

New virus attacks mobile phones using Symbian OS Picture 1

Cell phone infected with Commwarrior.C

Security firm F-Secure has warned Symbian mobile phone users about the latest variant of Commwarrior, Commwarrior.C, which can be infected via Bluetooth, MMS and MMC memory cards.

Commwarrior.C specializes in Bluetooth, MMS and MMC memory cards when plugging in infected phones.When infected, Commwarrior.C will try to change the existing operating logo on its main machine.Commwarrior.C infected the Nokia 6600 and changed the logo to 'Commwarrior infected'.

However, users must accept to install the application, the new virus can infect their mobile phones.Therefore, the security company also recommends that users be careful when receiving files on Symbian OS phones.

When infected, Commwarrior.C will perform the following tasks:

When users respond to new SMS and MMS messages, Commwarrior.C will open a website using the mobile phone's browser.

Commwarrior uses bluetooth to spread by detecting other mobile phones around and sending infected SIS files to all the mobile phones it finds.The name of this SIS file will be unordered, so users may be confused.

When the MMC memory card is inserted into a mobile phone that has been infected with Commwarrior.C, it will automatically duplicate itself to the memory card.When another phone is infected with Commwarrior due to a memory card inserted, Commwarrior will have the following characters:

"CommWarrior Outcast: The dark side of Symbian Force.

CommWarrior v2.0-PRO.Copyright (c) 2005 by e10d0r

CommWarrior is freeware product.You can freely offer it

trong nó gốc unmodified form.

With best regards from Russia.

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