Another sad news for Chinese and for rest of the I.T world that a new mobile virus named “MMS Bomber” has hit China, and thousands and millions of cell phones are its victim. Main target of the virus are mobile devices like S60 3rd OS, Nokia and Samsung smart-phones.
This virus is an application; if installed, the virus can automatically connect to the internet and sends MMS containing a malicious link to mobile phone numbers without the permission of the user, end result of sending MMS is the finance loss of mobile users.
Virus was identified by the Mobile Security Center of NetQin Mobile Inc, which is a leading mobile security service provider. Company analyzed that there are more than 100,000 mobile phones are infected. It’s notable that the virus has defence mechanisms.
This virus can also disable the system management on your mobile, and your mobile phone will not be able to uninstall the virus. Now what? Just download the NetQin Mobile Anti-virus 3.2, install and update to the latest virus database and get protected.
According to a report, smart-phones represented 14 percent of total mobile device sales in 2009, which is now predicted to reach 38 percent by 2013, it means that threat is increasign as well, if you want to know what is threat to smart-phones then follow this link.
This thing is quite clear that more the mobile devices will be used to store personal and professional information, the more they are prone to risk for security threats.
via [Voxy]
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