Mobile Virus

mobile virus 

A mobile virus is an electronic virus that target mobile phones or wireless-enabled Pads.

As wireless phone and PDA network become more frequent and more multifarious it has happen to more difficult to safe and sound them against electronic attacks in the form of virus or other malicious software

History

The first instance of a transportable virus occur in June 2004 when it was bare that a company called Ojam had engineered an anti-piracy Trojan virus in older versions of their mobile phone game Mosquito. This virus sent SMS text messages to the company without the user's knowledge. This virus was removed from more current versions of the game; on the other hand it still exists on older, unlicensed versions. These older versions may still be distributed on file-sharing networks and free software download web sites.

In July 2004, computer hobbyists on the rampage a proof-of-concept mobile virus named Cabir. This virus replicates itself on Bluetooth wireless networks.

In March 2005 it was reported that a computer worm called Commwarrior-A has been infecting Symbian series 60 mobile phones. This worm replicates itself from end to end the phone's Multimedia Messaging System (MMS). It sends copies of itself to other phone owner scheduled in the phone user's address book. Although the worm is not considered harmful, experts agree that it heralds a new age of electronic attacks on mobile phones.

Common mobile viruses

Cabir: Infects mobile phones running on Symbian OS. When a phone is contaminated the message 'Caribe' is displayed on the phone's display and is displayed every time the phone is turned on. The worm subsequently attempts to spread to other phones in the area using wireless Bluetooth signals.

Duts: A parasitic file infecter virus and is the first known virus for the PocketPC raised area It attempts to infect all EXE files in the current directory (infects files that are bigger than 4096 bytes)

Skulls: A trojan horse piece of code. Once downloaded, the virus, call Skulls, replaces all phone desktop icons with images of a skull. It also will render all phone applications, including Smashes and MMSes useless

Commwarrior: First worm to use MMS messages in order to extend to other devices. Can spread through Bluetooth as well. It infects devices running underneath OS Symbian succession 60. The executable worm file once launched hunt for accessible Bluetooth devices and sends the infected files above a random Christian name to various devices.