Re: FN-FORUM: ICE Virus

date posted 14th July 2005 23:26

It's a SAGEM MyV-55, not sure what virus it was as the sales person just
walked away after i started asking questions. So i just left it. However i
think it was a virus on Vodafones end and not my phones end.

- Dale

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From: "Dom Latter" [EMAIL REMOVED]
To: [EMAIL REMOVED]
Sent: Thursday, July 14, 2005 11:46 PM
Subject: Re: FN-FORUM: ICE Virus



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 siad
> 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
and PDA functions into one device. The good news is that 96% of the
phones sold last year are not smartphones, use an operating system other
than Symbian and are, therefore, completely immune to existing mobile
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
and Skulls fall in the 0-to-49 range, according to Symantec's virus threat
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

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