My mom was shocked to find a virus invading her phone today. It was sending multi-media messages (MMS) using the contacts in her phone. She found out it was a Commwarrior virus sent via bluetooth. Commwarrior runs on the Symbian Series 60 platform used on Nokia phones, so other operating systems will not be affected. More on that virus here. She told me she had an antivrus program (Simworks International) installed in one of those Greenhills cellphone repair stalls to remove the offending virus. A temporary fix is to disable MMS network in the setting. This will just prevent the virus from sending multi-messages. Wow, viruses are everywhere.
And be careful while shopping in Greenhills… Because of the hundreds of cellphone shops, one could deliberately send the virus. Keep “bluetooth” hidden.
