Cell Phones and Viruses
If we compare PC field and cell phone field in case of viruses we would tell that now is not so easy to create a PC virus (but it is not impossible) but is really easy to create a cell phone virus! The reason is that it’s usual to have an anti-virus program installed in our computer and it’s unusual to have it installed in a cell phone. Another side of this thing is operation system similarity PC with cell phone. It means, that it’s really easy just to adapt an existing PC virus to cell phone’s operation system.
First mobile’s phone virus was found out three years ago. It was just a touch of virus to try to spread from a cell phone to another cell phone. Shortly, there came some another versions of it. They could do a lot of unwanted operations from starting to delete to ending to steal information. Nowadays there exist almost 400 types of cell phone’s viruses.
What do we know about them? They need net – wire or wireless. Our cell phones can catch them by MMS and also internet connection by 3G, IC, Bluetooth, WiFi and wire connection with PC. They can look like pictures, MP3s (rings), videos or useful applications. Of course, to activate a virus user has to consent it, but now users are not thinking about cell phone’s viruses and they consent it in moment with maximal trust. After the consent, the cell phone’s virus can do everything it wants. As an example, they can send MMS to all your contacts in your cell phone. How many contacts do you have in your cell phone? Average is 200. How many times do you think your virus will do it? And that’s not all, a virus can delete or change information or applications in your phone and even fully destroy it.
Most from cell phone’s viruses are working in cell phones with operation system like Symbian or Windows mobile. There aren’t many cell phones with those operation systems, but in short future there won’t exist a cell phone without operation system on this base.
And the result? Unwanted monitoring, data stealing (credit card’s PIN codes)! In this case you are the first one who makes a decision to open unknown files and applications. Also deactivate WiFi and Bluetooth in time you don’t need it. At the end don’t forget to update your operation system and anti-virus system for your cell phone.
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Yes, some mobile phone models can get viruses – but by far not all of them. In particular, the Samsung Memoir cannot.
Basically, it depends on the operating system used by the mobile phone. The phones using Symbian S60 R2 (mostly – the old Nokia smart phones) are the most at risk, although proof-of-concept viruses also exist for the devices using PalmOS, Windows Mobile, Symbian S60 R3 and Symbian UIQ operating systems. Also, the phones that can get viruses currently get them not while browsing the 'net (like the PCs mostly do) – but via Bluetooth, MMS messages or MMC card exchange.
One more thing. If your phone looks like a disk drive to your PC when connected to it, and if the PC is infected with a particular kind of virus, the virus can copy itself to the phone. It cannot run there (so, technically, the phone is not infected), but it can infect another PC if the phone is connected to it.
Yes, mobile phones can get viruses. Not all phone models, though. Only the mobile phones using the Symbian S60 R2 operating system (mostly – the older models of Nokia smartphones) are seriously at risk. While proof-of-concept viruses also exist for devices using the PalmOS, Windows Mobile and Symbian UIQ operating systems, they have no chance of surviving in the wild. Also, there are no viruses for the phones using the Symbian S60 R3 operating system (the newer models of Nokia smartphones), since it is much more secure than the R2 version and is incompatible with the latter. Finally, the phones on which you can install only Java (J2ME) applications cannot get a virus, because the Java security model prevents it. (It also makes it impractical to write an anti-virus program for this environment.)
Regarding how the virus gets into the phone – it happens almost exclusively via Bluetooth. All Symbian S60 viruses spread like this, without exception. Basically, your phone tells you that somebody is trying to send you a package via Bluetooth. If you try to reject it, you'll immediately get the request again – until you accept it, turn your phone off, or walk away (Bluetooth has short range – 10-15 meters). Once you accept it, the virus runs on your phone and starts sending itself from there.
Some (not all) mobile phone viruses can also spread via MMS (*not* SMS) and also by inserting an infected MMC card into your phone.
Regarding the effects – well, a virus is just a program. It can do to your phone anything that is doable programmatically – steal your contacts, delete files, change icons, make expensive phone calls, etc., etc.
um.. I haven't heard of that.. there are viruses on computers. but If there are.. then its a hacker that gets into a cell phones system and messes up the system
Sansung's proprietary OS is probably not going to have any viruses. That sounds like either a horrible coincidence, or the web link had content that was too much for the phone to handle. You might want to shut the phone off and remove the battery to see if that helps… If that fails then I'd do the old backup of your contacts to your sim card, save pics on the computer and perform a master reset/master clear. You'll need to reinstall any games or purchased ringtones, but at least it'll work. If it still doesn't work after that, then it means it had nothing to do with the website, that the phone software might be defective. I'd call the cell company and have tech care work with you on it.
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Yes, they can – but it depends very much on the phone model or, more exactly, on the operating system used by the phone. The phones that are the most at risk are those using the Symbian S60 R2 operating system – those are mostly the old Nokia smart phones. Proof-of-concept viruses also exist for the devices running the PalmOS, Windows Mobile, Symbian UIQ and Symbian S60 R3 operating systems – but they have no real chances of surviving in the wild.
Also, viruses for mobile phones do not spread over the Internet. They spread mostly via Bluetooth, MMS and MMC card exchange. The closest thing we have to an Internet-spreading mobile phone virus is Yxe.D. It is for Symbian S60 R3 phones, resides on a Web page, and sends SMS messages to the addresses in the phonebook with the link to this Web page, enticing the recipient to install the program (i.e., the virus) that resides there.
Finally, a virus for PCs can't infect a phone, because PC programs (including viruses) can't work on the phone. However, if when connected to the PC the phone looks like an USB drive to it, a PC virus can copy itself to the phone and even infect another PC from it – despite the fact that it cannot run on the phone and that the phone is not, technically, infected (it just contains a copy of the virus).
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I m not sure it is virus.But,….. i d k.A virus is (should generaly) a small programm file,not that just TEXT file.
The most thing i can assumme is the sender send you a contact name written in special characters that are not supported by your phone,so they turn into boxes.
Did you try to reset it to the original factory setting?!? I have experienced virus touched my phone,but it wasnt that kind.I was told to reset my phone to clear the virus.I did n it works.I m not going to suggest you to do this.But if you want to do,back up all your value files on your phone first.
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Well I was always under the possibly false impression that since cell phones don't have harddrives, they can't get viruses. But phones like the iPhone 3g that can download 3rd party applications may be prone to viruses.
I never use the actual internet on my phone, just the AT&T store, so I'm not worried about viruses.
Even though it's a relatively new arena there are viruses that can attack and infect cell phones and they are starting to become more common. The most common ways are through phones where bluetooth is kept on all the time or text and mms messaging (Nokia Symbian and Windows Mobile phones are the most vulnerable to these attacks though any phone can catch these viruses). These do not discriminate by wireless carrier and the only way to remove them is to reset the phone to an out of the box state.