Alert - Mobile Phone Virus steals your credit
Kaspersky Lab, the anti-virus specialst Kaspersky Anti-Virus Products
have warned of five new variants of the mobile virus Trojan-SMS.Python.Flocker. This virus transfers credit from your account - admitedly only a small amount, between $0.45 and $0.90 - into theirs.
But a small ammount to you multiplied by hunderds or thousands of infected phones could be a large sum for the hackers who released the virus.
If you don’t have mobile antivirus protection installed on your N96, perhaps you should consider it. The Kaspersky offering costs $29.95 but has some handy anti theft tools including the ability to remotely block aceesss to a smartphone, to remotely clean the device’s memory,or to get the phone to send the new telephone number to you, all by sending your stolen N96 a text message. Whilst possibly not getting your phone back it would enable you to protect any sensitive data stored on your phone and make it unusable for the thief.
An alternaive is F-Secure Mobile Antivirus , which comes with 12 months worth of automatic updates (and also uses the Kaspersky virus data) for £24.95. There is also a free 1 month trial for their pc based antivirus, if you need a solution for your pc.