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Three malicious programs spreading via Bluetooth or multimedia messages can affect Symbian phones By Nancy Gohring IDG News Service Three new malicious programs are hitting certain mobile phones anti-virus companies have warned. The Trojan horses or programs that are disguised as legitimate applications spread via Bluetooth or multimedia messages and can affect phones running the Symbian operating system.

Three new malicious Trojans aimed at mobile phones running the Symbian operating system have been released into the wild. The Trojans malicious programs disguised as legitimate applications are spread via the Bluetooth short-range wireless technology or through multimedia messages.

Jan 24 2006 (TELECOMWORLDWIRE via COMTEX) Anti-virus companies have warned that three malicious programs which spread via multimedia messages or Bluetooth disguised as legitimate applications are affecting certain mobile phones including some running on the Symbian operating system. Information security company Symantec and F-Secure an anti-virus and anti-intrusion software company detected the Bootton.E Trojan which is reportedly the worst of the three.

While cellphone viruses are in their infancy locally information technology experts predict a growing problem in the future that could cost the country's 30-million cellphone users billions of rands in anti-virus software. Loet de Swart director of mobile application developer Always Active Technologies said cellular-based viruses were a "very small problem" at the moment but the fact that some of the world's biggest anti-virus software developers had already invested in creating programmes to fight cellular ...

Three new malicious programs are hitting certain mobile phones anti-virus companies have warned. The Trojan horses or programs that are disguised as legitimate applications spread via Bluetooth or multimedia messages and can affect phones running the Symbian operating system.

Swedish headsets developer Nextlink AB said on Monday (23 January) that it had signed a development and licensing agreement with global mobile phones maker.