Do you know that you mobile phone can be infected with virus just like PC? Mobile viruses can infect mobile phones which runs on S60 Symbian. This bastard can send unwanted SMS, make fake phocalls and even delete your contacts.
First mobile virus
The first instance of mobile virus occured in June 2004, this virus sent SMS text messages without phone user knowledge. Second one virus was named as Cabir and it replicated itself on Bluetooth networks. In March 2005 a worm called Commwarrior-A infected Symbian S60 phones via MMS service, these messages was sent to all contacts, so can you imagine phone bills?
Problems caused by mobile virus
As we said, mobile virus can send unwanted messages make fake phone calls as well as delete all your data, but thats not all! Below is the list with all types of mobile virus caused problems:
- Phone becomes very slow
- Slow reboot times
- Virus can increase your phone bill
- Phone becomes unstable
- Sometimes you cant switch on your phone
- Your private data can become public!
How to secure my phone?
Firstly you can disable all the WiFi and Bluetooth features, but how can you imagine nowadays phone without access to the internet? Second choice is to use anti virus software, which protects your mobile phone in real time, as well as offers full file system scan. One of best software available right now is Netqin 3.0.





