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Mobile viruses that can infect you cell phone

Posted on May 12, 2008 under Bluetooth, Mobile, Security | 3 Comments

If you are thinking that it’s just you PC that can have viruses, then you may be wrong. Just like Your PC or your lappy, your cell phone may also get infected with viruses.

Here is few common mobile viruses:

Cabir: Infects mobile phones running on Symbian OS. When a phone is infected, the message ‘Caribe’ is displayed on the phone’s display and is displayed every time the phone is turned on. The worm then attempts to spread to other phones in the area using wireless Bluetooth signals.

Duts: A parasitic file infector virus and is the first known virus for the PocketPC platform. It attempts to infect all EXE files in the current directory (infects files that are bigger than 4096 bytes)

Skulls: A trojan horse piece of code. Once downloaded, the virus, called Skulls, replaces all phone desktop icons with images of a skull. It also renders all phone applications, including SMSes and MMSes useless

Commwarrior: First worm to use MMS messages in order to spread to other devices. Can spread through Bluetooth too. It infects devices running under OS Symbian Series 60. The executable worm file once launched hunts for accessible Bluetooth devices and sends the infected files under a random name to various devices.

Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mobile_virus

Airtel Mobile Office: Problem with Samsung SGH-E250

Posted on Jan 14, 2008 under Bluetooth, Mobile | No Comment

I am using BSNL’s Internet service since a long period. Their service is not very satisfactory. Most of time they are down. One of my friend suggested me to use Airtel Mobile Office. He said it will cost around Rs. 500.00 ($13.00) per month and I can use any bluetooth supported Mobil set. My Mobile phone (Samsung SGH-E250) have this option and price was also reasonable, so I decided to give it a test drive.

After subscribing for Airtel Mobile Office, my account was activated within 48 hours, but the problem was that I was able to browse internet on mobile but not on my PC. I called Airtel customer services but didn’t any solution. I Googled it but couldn’t find any solution of this problem.

Here is what my friend suggested which worked.
1. Go to Start -> Control panel -> Phone and Modem ->
2. Select the 'Bluetooth DUN Modem' (or what ever is name of your bluetooth modem) and click properties.
3. On Advanced Tab Enter in Extra setting box. : AT+CGDCONT=1,"IP","airtelgprs.com"<CR>
Hope this will help you.

Tags: Airtel Live, AirtelLive, Bluetooth, Samsung, SGH-E250