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Malware verison of Mosquitos |
guruchill
Joined: Jun 16, 2004
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From: 30 miles west of SAL
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Don't know if this is old news round here, but from Mobile9
A ‘cracked’ version of the Mosquitos game for Symbian was found to be a trojan. The dialer trojan is capable of sending SMS to a couple pay-per-call numbers without the owner’s knowledge. Each SMS costs a hefty £1.50. Ouch!
We first heard of the Mosquito dialer Trojan while researching online. Various web forum users were complaining that they had installed a game and now their phones were sending text messages to the number 87140. But some users hadn’t noticed this problem, so it was evident that there were at least two discrete versions of this game in circulation - and that at least one of these versions was malware.
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Trinity16
Joined: Dec 31, 2003
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I always thaught that that was the method in paying for mosquito's.. by it sending premium rate sms.. |
cootuk
Joined: Mar 29, 2004
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http://www.theregister.co.uk/2004/08/11/mosquitos_malware_myth/
Apparently the SMS code was built in all along.... |
kenski
Joined: Aug 15, 2002
Posts: 369
From: Philippines
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I've also came across that same topic in another forum. Can't somebody have the developer jailed for that? I guess built in antivirus for mobiles would soon be introduce one of these days. SE are u lìstening? ;-)
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richy240
Joined: Jan 24, 2003
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From: Houston, Texas, USA
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This isn't a virus though... This was built into the program ON PURPOSE. There is already an antivirus program for Symbian anyway. It is useless in my opinion, but it exists nonetheless.
Isn't Mosquitos for Series 60 anyway? Why are we talking about it here?
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syntax
Joined: Jun 19, 2004
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From: Norwich
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'Game virus' bites mobile phones |
lecco
Joined: May 16, 2004
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just turn your phone to flight mode so it can't dial out when you run the program? |
syntax
Joined: Jun 19, 2004
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From: Norwich
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Or alternativly buy the legit software. |
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Posted: 2004-08-09 17:58
