Fontal installs corrupted font file into a cell phone and as a result the cell phone will fail to start at next reboot.

It means that the cell phone infected with Fontal.A must not be switched off before desinfection!

If you switch off your phone, then you have to reformat it; this will result in the loss of all data on the cell phone.

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The story usally starts with MMS received from somebody you know. Let's say that you receive a MMS message from your friend and it contains text:

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F-Secure company announced today -
New Symbian trojan Mquito detected

Mquito may send SMS messages to premium rate number. Mainly the users who downloaded a "cracked" version of Mosquitos game from file sharing networks are in the danger.

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The history of cell phone viruses starts with Cabir (alias Caribe)

The sample of first ever cell phone virus was sent to anti-virus firms on June 14th 2004.

Cabir virus spreads by bluetooth, so it can reach cell phones only if these conditions are fulfiled:

• cell phone supports bluetooth


• the bluetooth is switched on


• the cell phone is in discoverable mode

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