CommWarrior Guns For Nokias
News The malicious software, dubbed "CommWarrior" and described as a virus by some antivirus companies, takes aim at the version of the Symbian operating system running on Nokia Series 60 handsets. While many modern phones are capable of sending MMS...
[March 8, 2005, 8:00]
Trend Micro Updates Smartphone Antivirus
News So even though proof-of concept malware such as Cabir (which spreads through Bluetooth) and CommWarrior (which spreads via Bluetooth and MMS) exist, it would be relatively easy to keep such malware from invading a smartphone.
[November 2, 2005, 14:00]
Nokia Reacts To Mobile Virus Threat
News Nokia series 60 handsets running the Symbian operating system are the target of the CommWarrior Trojan horse, which has been spotted spreading. Under the agreement, announced on Wednesday, Nokia plans to arm its Series 60 smartphones with the...
[October 6, 2005, 9:40]
Virus Reignites Mobile Malware Squabble
News The warning, released last week, claimed that the worm — Commwarrior Q — affects smartphones running Symbian Series 60 software. Symbian, the company which develops the mobile operating systems affected by Commwarrior viruses, feels that F-Secure...
[August 8, 2006, 13:45]
Mobile Antivirus Products Arrive In Force
News Last year, the CommWarrior virus, which spreads between Symbian Series 60 handsets, appeared in at least 15 countries, including the UK. Viruses such as CommWarrior affect both end users and operators.
[February 14, 2006, 13:35]
Smartphone-breaking Symbian Trojan Found
News A new Symbian Trojan horse called Doomboot.A has been found which loads the virus CommWarrior.B onto Symbian Series 60 smartphones. CommWarrior.B generates enough Bluetooth traffic to drain the battery of a smartphone in less than an hour and...
[July 4, 2005, 18:00]
Company Struck Down By CommWarrior
News CommWarrior targets mobile phones that use the Symbian Series 60 operating system, and spreads over Bluetooth and as an MMS . F-Secure security expert Patrick Runald said on Tuesday that an outbreak of the CommWarrior.B virus occured at an unnamed...
[August 31, 2005, 9:40]
CommWarrior Mobile Virus Hits UK
News CommWarrior targets mobile phones that use the Symbian Series 60 operating system, and spreads either over Bluetooth or as an MMS. The United Kingdom has become the fifteenth country to be witness an infection by the CommWarrior mobile phone virus...
[June 28, 2005, 17:05]
Symbian's Security Problems Worsen
News But unlike the CommWarrior Trojan, Fontal.A does not propagate over Bluetooth wireless networking connections or Multimedia Message Service, which is a mobile technology for sending text messages that can also include images, audio or video.
[April 7, 2005, 10:20]
CommWarrior Guns For Nokias
Talkback Dear ZDnet.i bought the Sony Erricson p910 Series, But recently there is something strange about my phone, so i deside to install antivirus from smobile systems. And the antivirus alert the CommWarrior_C in my phone, so far nothing happens to my...
[February 6, 2006, 10:27]
