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Cell phone viruses; Oh great...
Topic Started: Mar 27 2005, 03:06 AM (622 Views)
Wiedle
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I heard on the news the other day that there is a virus for cell phones that is going around that drains all of your battery power in like a few seconds. It also sends it to everyone in your address book in the form of a text message. It also goes along with all of the text messages/pictures you send. (Don't ask me how you could send one if your batteries out though :huh:).
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burners57
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Wierd we had enough of teh Computer viruses now we got a new problem
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Hermionecaz
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Cell phone virus? I don't really think that's possible unlesss it's this massive thing that usues too much energy. If it's sent in a message you can just delete it...
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There has been one form of mobile phone virus around for at least a year, but it is practically harmless, and designed mainly to show the weaknesses in mobile phones.

Obviously some people are out to exploit the weaknesses now :@. We're gonna need a mobile phone firewall soon :/.
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Hermionecaz
Mar 26 2005, 11:52 PM
Cell phone virus? I don't really think that's possible unlesss it's this massive thing that usues too much energy. If it's sent in a message you can just delete it...

It says it is from one of your friends though, so unless you call them and ask before you open it, you're toast.
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Blah425
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Take my phone its a POS anyways!
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Scott T
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My nokia seems to getting drained fairly quickly lately, so i might have it :ermm:

How do you check for it?
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That's bad for people who extensively use thier mobiles/cells. I don't though.
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Wiedle
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Rowain
Mar 27 2005, 09:50 AM
My nokia seems to getting drained fairly quickly lately, so i might have it  :ermm:

How do you check for it?

Not sure. The stupid news people didn't really say... :@

I'll check in to it though.

EDIT: Heres an article I found on it: http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,1759,1773580,00.asp

And it does say it targets Nokias specifically.
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Cell phone virus, some people have way to much time on there hands to create such a thing
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nice move by the coders...i wonder what language its in.....

Bad for cell users.....glad i dont use a nokia :)
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-Dynasty-
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Meh, i did compu tech, its all rubbish lol, think about it! nothing can drain your battery except excessive phone use ;)
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I don't doubt it, with all of our advancements in technology there are bound to be downsides like this. ;)
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Shahzaad
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Ive been through dat, i had a Caribe virus, i cleared it out
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MasterG
Mar 27 2005, 01:10 AM
Obviously some people are out to exploit the weaknesses now :@. We're gonna need a mobile phone firewall soon :/.

Yeah we are.
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nice move by the coders...i wonder what language its in.....

C++, that's what all (from what I know) Cell phones are programmed with.
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Meh, i did compu tech, its all rubbish lol, think about it! nothing can drain your battery except excessive phone use

Not really, if the virus constantly does stuff on your cell phone, that's the same thing as using your cell phone yourself.
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