Re: FN-FORUM: ICE Virus

date posted 14th July 2005 23:16

On Thursday 14 Jul 2005 11:16 pm, Dale Hay wrote:
> I had a virus on my phone, and when i went to the Vodafone shop they si=
ad
> that about 80% of pay-as-you-go customers have this virus, which doesn'=
t

What make / model of phone is it? What was the virus?

As of three months ago:
"The current slate of viruses all target the Nokia Series 60 smartphones
running the Symbian operating system . A smartphone combines phone=20
and PDA functions into one device. The good news is that 96% of the=20
phones sold last year are not smartphones, use an operating system other=
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than Symbian and are, therefore, completely immune to existing mobile=20
threats." [1]

(Granted the 96% probably refers to the US only, but it's close enough)

And also:
"the number of reported infections of each variant of Cabir, Commwarrior=20
and Skulls fall in the 0-to-49 range, according to Symantec's virus thre=
at
database."

So I'm afraid I do not believe what the Vodafone shop told you.

[1] http://www.networkworld.com/research/2005/041805-mobile-virus.html