Warrior Comm virus for Nokia phones

[Palatkik]

A Thai friend of mine (not too tech savvy!) picked up the warriorcomm virus via bluetooth on her Nokia S60 series phone. It's a sis file attachment to an MMS. It promptly sent out recurring MMS messages depleting her prepaid account from 700 baht to nothing. A good deal for the phone companies?

 

To the phone providers credit, DTAC, they removed the problem with a virus tracking installation. They didn't mention what they had done or that the program was on daily auto update thus depleting her account further on GPRS rates for software update checks. I imagine there are numerous tech clueless account holders getting hit by either the virus or miss information.

 

[mongatu]

If you keep your phone's bluetooth setting to "hide" or "hidden," would this prevent the virus from being transferred to your phone?

[Mekong]

If you keep your phone's bluetooth setting to "hide" or "hidden," would this prevent the virus from being transferred to your phone?

 

No as the OP stated it is sent via MMS.

 

The best cure is to do a full back up and then Key in *#7370# to reformat the phone, not only will this remove the virus it will also get rid of the DTAC daily update programme.

 

Further prevention is

 

NEVER open an ".SIS" file, even if sent by someone you know, the virus spreds via the contacts from infected phone.

 

Consider using a device with WM5 rather than Symbian.

[mongatu]

I'm using a Nokia 6233 which is a series 40 (3rd gen) device, (seems kind of like a smart NON smart phone) so I guess I don't have to worry about this then.