Mobile Phones Viruses: The Media Spread, how to Spread Virus and the Prevention

Media Virus Spread

Bluetooth and infrared are a medium for spreading viruses phone quickly without our knowledge. Advanced features of the phones are very helpful many things, but also be aware that mobile phone viruses will spread through a variety of ways unknown to the mobile users.

How to Spread Virus

Mobile phones increasingly vulnerable to viral infections because mobile phones have become sophisticated devices for data communication. The spread of mobile phone viruses almost beyond recognition, have been carried out in various ways to infect the phone. Mobile users are low on memory of the course will often do the transfer of data from the phone's memory card to computer or vice versa. Trend Micro, an antivirus company from the United States declared the existence of mobile phone virus capable of infecting the computer. Mentioned that the virus has emerged Symbos_cardtrp.A

This virus was originally circulated in Symbian Series 60 phones. Now it has been developed and has the potential to spread to computers that operate with Microsoft Windows systems.
Symbos_cardtrp.A viruses reduplicate themselves via Bluetooth. The virus managed to infect the target will remain in the memory card on the phone. If the user enters an infected memory card into the card slot on their computer, the virus infected memory card could potentially transmit the virus to the computer, and will spread to other computers. If executed, this virus will launched Wukill.B Worm, which will spread to other computers.

Cabir virus has no destructive capabilities, and works only on a smart phone running the Symbian operating system and equipped with a Bluetooth connection. These viruses exploit the way in which the phone was supposed to work. Cabir worm was first discovered in June 2004 after an international group of virus writers 29A to send samples of the virus to antivirus companies. Cabir worm mobile phone battery can be exhausting, especially when trying to infect other Bluetooth phones within a radius of 30 meters.

The virus infects Duts PocketPC mobile devices. A backdoor named Brador flaw was found in a cell phone. This type of Trojan virus can open up internet access or mobile phone without the owner's knowledge.

The Prevention

Turn off Bluetooth, data exchange in the form of documents, songs, and pictures via Bluetooth has a great potential presence of a virus attack.

Turn off Infrared, infrared also has a great potential as a medium for the spread of mobile viruses.

Disable Wi-Fi, is still limited to smart phones that have this facility, so it is not spread through the media via Bluetooth or infrared for.

Data Cable, this media is the most effective means for the spread of the virus. Phones directly connected to the computer when transferring data. With a data cable data transfer process will be faster and effective than the media Bluetooth and infra red.

Connection to the Internet, mobile technologies close to the computer, the activities are closely connected to the Internet can also be done by phone.