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 $1.00 CommWarrior could prove expensive to anyone unlucky enough to be infected by it. As the virus runs silently in the background it could be quite some time before the user becomes aware of the potentially hundreds of MMS messages that have been sent," said Aaron Davidson, CEO of SimWorks.'"
First AV As well... (Score:4, Informative)
Trojan not virus (Score:5, Informative)
hehe (Score:3, Informative)
Maybe people need to learn that the home phone is better for calling friends and mobiles are mostly for emergencies and when someone needs to urgently contact you..
Re:Sure would like a link... (Score:2, Informative)
Re:Trojan not virus (Score:2, Informative)
It is littered with warnings and confirmation screens. Anyone who got this virus had to endure the installation process confirmations. It is worse than a EULA.
I find that I lack sympathy for a user who repeatedly selected "ok" and "continue" after being warned that this software cannot be verified -- software that arrived unsolicited.
It takes a whole new kind of inattention to allow this virus to spread.
Re:Looks like a trojan, not a virus (Score:3, Informative)
Re:Trojan not virus (Score:2, Informative)
A trojan is a piece of software that contains malicious code, which COULD be a virus or worm, but it is not necessary. It could simply do something nasty without spreading.
A virus is a piece of malicious code that attaches itself to another program. Just like biological viruses infect cells to reproduce.
A worm is a piece of malicious code that simply replicates. For example the original Internet worm broke into other systems and executed itself from the new host to spread further. It did not attach itself to other programs.
Europe (Score:3, Informative)
Typically these rates aren't too bad, but when you start calling from one network to another they can get VERY high. In the UK I would pay close to 1$US/minute to call from orange -> tmobile.
Text messages are generally very cheap and practical. Plus they are better for communicating certain types of information since you have a record of it. Not to mention the privacy issue of being able to text when you are in a meeting at work or in a resturant.
On top of that you can IM with people on their computers.