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Mobile virus creator arrested in Spain

Categories: Security
By: , IntoMobile
Sunday, June 24th, 2007 at 12:15 PM

Finally, the real action against the mobile phone virus maker has been taken! Spanish police have arrested a 28-year-old man suspecting that his virus has affected more than 115,000 Symbian OS-based smartphones thus causing millions of euros in damages to both mobile phone owners and mobile service providers.

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I’ll only add that the virus CERTAINLY hasn’t affected the latest Nokia and Sony Ericsson devices that run Symbian OS version 9.1 or higher (S60 3.0+ and UIQ 3.0+). The new security layer built inside the Symbian OS v9+ simply doesn’t allow such things to happen… :)

[Via: textually.org]

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Dusan Belic

Dusan has been using smartphones since their introduction and is now following the latest trends in the industry. The "convergence" is what he's most excited about, and writing about it is the next logical thing to do. He thinks that using a smartphone is what everyone who cares about their time should do. In addition to his interests in mobile phones, Dusan also loves to experiment with the latest web and mobile 2.0 services. The idea of accessing and managing your information from any device no matter where you are simply amazes him. Whether it's an online to-do list, note taking service or a video sharing social network, he's there to try it out. He admits though, he's still searching for the ultimate web-based organizational tool, which "sings" perfectly with the mobile PIM application. Dusan used to run SymbianWatch.com which later became part of IntoMobile. He lives in Serbia, South-East Europe, from where he edits the site on a daily basis.

  • guru

    i need vires to affect the n95 mobile

  • Phantomx

    Always innocent until proven guilty–when a person deploy viruses on the system, there should be capital punishment inflicted by injecting a series of ones and O’s deep into the nonsensical vein. . .