First Symbian OS virus to replicate over MMS 179
Shachaf writes "A new virus, CommWarrior.a, is the first to replicate over MMS (Multimedia Message Service). From the article: 'Multimedia Message Service (MMS) is a more advanced version of the Short Message Service (SMS) familiar to users of GSM based handsets around the world, and allows rich content such as pictures, sounds, video, and applications to be sent as well as text.', and '"With MMS messages typically costing between $0.25 and $1.00 CommWarrior could prove expensive to anyone unlucky enough to be infected by it. As the virus runs silently in the background it could be quite some time before the user becomes aware of the potentially hundreds of MMS messages that have been sent," said Aaron Davidson, CEO of SimWorks.'"
Well (Score:3, Funny)
Viruses (Score:2, Funny)
Re:LOL (Score:3, Funny)
Ha! When I was your age, "old school" meant using a rotary dial, pulse landline.
Well at least there's one alternative (Score:4, Funny)
Re:If the virus sends a relatively uniform... (Score:5, Funny)
Yeah, god forbid a cellphone company take advantage of unsavvy customers....
Time to rob the rich and give to the...rich (Score:2, Funny)
Re:another good reason to have a simple cellphone (Score:2, Funny)
Actually, we laugh at you for OTHER reasons, but if you want to believe it's your crappy phone, go ahead.
Re:another good reason to have a simple cellphone (Score:2, Funny)
(Sure, you're safer, but most people prefer functionality over safety. I'll keep my WAP browser and Bluetooth contact synchronization, thank you very much, even with the gaping hole in Bluetooth.)