viruses affecting mobile phones?

Answer 1

Yes, there are some computer viruses that affect mobile phones.

First of all, there are PC viruses that drop components for some mobile devices. For instance, the W32/MTX virus drops a PalmOS component (which is a joke, though, not a real virus) and the Crossover virus drops a Windows Mobile component.

Second, there are native viruses for the most popular mobile operating systems - Symbian, Windows Mobile and PalmOS.

Currently, the viruses for Windows Mobile and PalmOS are not a real threat - they are mostly proof-of-concept. There is one PalmOS virus which is a stupid overwriter (i.e., the infected programs immediately stop working, so its presence is rather obvious) and 3 PalmOS Trojans. There are also two viruses for Windows Mobile and a Trojan (a backdoor) for it. One of the two viruses asks for permission before infecting.

Now, Symbian - that's another matter. There are many viruses (and even more Trojans) for it. The most prevalent viruses are from the Cabir and CommWarrior family - especially the latter. They spread via Bluetooth; the CommWarrior viruses also spread via MMS and the .Q variant can also spread via MMC cards.

However, all known Symbian viruses are for the S60 R2 only. Some of the Trojans might work under the UIQ interface, but the viruses don't. Also, S60 R3 is binary incompatible with S60 R2, so the known viruses (and Trojans) don't work there, either. Nokia is aggressively phasing out the S60 R2 phones (in favor of S60 R3 phones) but the old ones are still quite widespread and if you have one of them, you better install some anti-virus program on it.

Finally, there are two Russian J2ME Trojans - but they aren't a serious threat, either.

Answer 2

To date the viruses affecting mobile phones have been limited to the Nokia "Symbian" operating system (smart phones). They spread through bluetooth, a proximity networking technology that allows a device to communicate with other devices within a given distance/proximity. Generally up to 10 meters.

Answer 3

By using mobile phones, viruses will affect our ears.

Answer 4

yes, viruses affecting mobile phones

Answer 5

this is my experience . I am having nokia 6670 a higher model cellphone while blue tooth is on visible to others I received one message from other blue tooth mobile after down loaded that message my phone automatically down load some contents in my phone gallery and sends the same to the numbers in my contacts through MMS. For the same month I received my phone bill in a hike of 700 rupees. after that i formatted my phone and installed a virus scanner software which solved my problem

Answer 6

Ya virus does affect mobile phones.
The more high end phone - more prone to virus attack.
Do not accept music or video clips without virus check thru a PC.
Also do not leave Blue tooth or Infrared port.

Answer 7

u need to scan it online , and for that go to this site
essential-software.blogspot dot com (replace dot with the .)

Search for a free online scanner (in the google search box). It will give you search results with the choicest of scanners avbl with this website.
Scan ur system online with any one or two of the first four results

Answer 8

it really is totally a lot accessible to be contaminated from information that are placed there interior the computing device and transferred a duplicate to the memory card once you inserted the cardboard to get or keep information from/interior the computing device. yet do not problem... you frequently can reinstall the OS of your cell telephone. :) And there are virus eliminating courses are available in for cellphones.

Answer 9

yes it can be effected

Answer 10

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