Mobile trojan in the wild

[0iD]

Just read this on Nesforge:

Mobile Trojan launches Skulls attack
Brief: Mobile users should avoid downloading Skulls.D, a
Trojan that will wreck their handset
http://newsletters.zdnetuk.cneteu.ne...09667/18693/0/

So be careful peeps

[Lead_Head]

Yeah. It only effects phones with Symbian Series 60 software on there phone.

What it does is basically changes every image on your phone to a skull and crossbone. Severely crippling the software.

The only plus point about this 'trojan' is that it cannot spread by itself. You have to download it yourself.

[Aaron]

The current threat of viruses on mobile phones has been hyped up out of all proportion. Out of the handful of viruses/malware programs identified, they have all needed user interaction to become installed on the phone. The security risk is with the user, rather than any hole in the operating system itself.

You have to be very proactive to get Skulls onto your phone. As Lead_head has mentioned, you have to download it yourself to begin with. This is going to be tricky as the software has been pulled from the website hosting it.

After that, you need to ignore several security warnings whilst installing it.

Even if you do get infected, a simple 5-minute master reset will solve the problem.