19. 11. 2004
Skulls - Skull and Cross Bones on Cell Phones
Skulls virus was described today.
All application icons are replaced with picture of skull and cross bones after the Skulls is installed on a cell phone.
As a result of infection all the higher level aplications of cell phone will not work. So the cell phone can only be used to make calls, but the camera, organiser functions, SMS, MMS, etc. will not work.
You can find detail description of Skull here - F-Secure.
You can find detail description of Skull here - Symantec.
Do not miss our precautions tips for cell phone users.
Updated: Later version of Skulls virus may also include the Locknut virus, that disables calling functionality.
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