Jared Moya
January 23rd, 2006, 12:47 PM
JANUARY 23, 2006 (IDG NEWS SERVICE) - Three new malicious programs are hitting certain mobile phones, antivirus companies have warned.
The Trojan horses, or programs that are disguised as legitimate applications, spread via Bluetooth or multimedia messages and can affect phones running the Symbian operating system.
The infection rate so far from the new malware is low, Symantec Corp. reported in threat warnings issued last week.
The Bootton.E Trojan horse was spotted last week by F-Secure Corp. and Symantec and is perhaps the most potentially crippling of the three. The program restarts the mobile devices it infects but releases corrupted components that cause the reboot to fail, leaving devices unusable.
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The Trojan horses, or programs that are disguised as legitimate applications, spread via Bluetooth or multimedia messages and can affect phones running the Symbian operating system.
The infection rate so far from the new malware is low, Symantec Corp. reported in threat warnings issued last week.
The Bootton.E Trojan horse was spotted last week by F-Secure Corp. and Symantec and is perhaps the most potentially crippling of the three. The program restarts the mobile devices it infects but releases corrupted components that cause the reboot to fail, leaving devices unusable.
READ ARTICLE (http://www.computerworld.com/mobiletopics/mobile/story/0,10801,107969,00.html)