How cellphone virus work
Cellphone virus is malicious programs that can operate in mobile phones, just like viruses in computers. Cellphone virus work on the background and perform unethical process without the knowledge of users. Cellphone virus can send unwanted messages, can trasfet unwanter files to any loacation, can send unwanted mms . The first known cell-phone virus appeared in 2004 and didn’t get very far. Cabir.A infected only a small number of Bluetooth-enabled phones and carried out no malicious action — a group of malware developers created Cabir to prove it could be done. Their next step was to send it to anti-virus researchers, who began the process of developing a solution to a problem that promises to get a lot worse.
Cell-phone viruses currently target Symbian Series 60 phones with Bluetooth and MMS capabilities, like this Nokia 6620.
Cell-phone viruses are at the threshold of their effectiveness. At present, they can’t spread very far and they don’t do much damage, but the future might see cell-phone bugs that are as debilitating as computer viruses. In this article, we’ll talk about how cell-phone viruses spread, what they can do and how you can protect your phone from current and future threats.
Thanks to How Stuffworks
How to avoid cellphone virus
You can easily prevent cellphone virus with the help of following few guidelines:
- Don’t let the blue-tooth of your phone on.(avoid it on public locations)
- Don’t accept unwanted files from the blue-tooth
- Don’t used unethically cracked applications on your mobile
- Always install the security/updates of the mobile os (*if applicable)
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June 11th, 2010 at 7:11 pm
Thanks for this nice article and you can protect your phone from current and future threats.
Adam
February 1st, 2011 at 9:57 am
And you will be surprised with your huge cellphones bills because of this cell phone viruses… Virus is very irritating… and I don’t even want to think of the damages that it may cause in every devices especially cellphones. It gives me headache.