Beware! Virus hits mobile phones

[laarni080]

If your cellphone bill exceeds your wildest dreams next time, beware!
Your handset is being hacked into by a deadly virus, that is capable of controlling your cellphone and even destroying the data stored in the mobiles, a top official of a leading anti-virus and Internet content security firm warned on Friday.
"The virus threat to mobile phones are real and could be more deadly than you could imagine," Niraj Kaushik, country manager (India) of Nasdaq-listed Trend Micro Inc, which just released a free trial of new protection for mobile devices, 'malware' (malicious software) that attack mobile phones, said in Chennai.
Considering that the mobile phones are always "switched on and networked", the chances of virus attacks are much more than on computers, he said.
Due to the rising popularity of data-centric mobile phones and personal digital assistants, these devices could become an attractive target for virus writers in the future, Kaushik warned.
Already, three malware programmes that affect mobile phones were detected during November, but these were considered harmless.
However, a fourth virus, which was detected in December first week, was found to be very destructive. "This virus allowed hackers to control your cellphone," Kaushik said.
All the virus attacks were witnessed on multi-functional smart phones, that have latest features like Internet connectivity and in-built cameras.

[arppt01]

Thanks for this in-depth report on mobile virus. As now it is clear that there are mobile viruses around, I think we have to now find out the way to protect us.

[laarni080]

Hope this post will give us an idea on how to protect or avoid viruses for our cellphones

[Sam]

Is this still happening? I have not heard but thanks for the heads up, wow, darn hackers,lol

[taiarain]

Is there a source for this snippet? Perhaps a link to the original article, complete with the author's name?

[loko]

I think that this article is very useful for those non believers out there. But if you own a 3310 or a 6210 unit; or a startac, then I don't think you should worry just yet. lol!

[cingularguy]

How does the virus access the phone? Can it come from calls? Or does it come from data transfers?

[arppt01]

I feel virus access Mobiles generally via bluetooth or when you download any games.

[cellphone26]

Just don't turn your bluetooth on all the time and it should be fine.

[RoxyMoron]

I thought I had heard about phone viruses long before I ever heard of bluetooth... could it apply to any phone that accesses the internet or any filesharing program?

[damsmith]

But which Antivirus is the best