Can your cellphone be infected by the Cabir virus?
Dec 28, 04 06:08 PM PDT
Security experts are bracing for a much larger wave of infected cellphones as the source code (the text of the viral program) has been released on the web. Anyone with a little bit of cellphone programming expertise can now modify and spread a variant of the Virus... (continued below) |
The first version of the Cabir virus for cellphones was spotted in June.
Cellphones viruses, just like real viruses, are hard to detect if they "mutate". A change in the original code would be equivalent to a "genetic mutation", making it harder for anti-virus software to detect it.
The virus is mildly destructive, but it can drain the battery by using the Bluetooth Wireless Protocol to spread to other phones. The virus works on the Symbian Series 60 Operating System (OS). If you phone does not use this OS, it should be fine.
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