Vodafone Mobile Phones Are Infected By Pre-Installed Virus
According to a statement released by Internet Security Firm Trend Micro. Vodafone’s HTC Magic Android enabled smart phones come with a Pre-installed Malware WORM_SILLY.QT.
The virus was first detected, when an employee of Panda Security, Spanish Anti-virus firm bought this handset from an Vodafone dealer in Spain. According to Spanish website, more than 3000 effected Vodafone Handsets are being used by their customers.
Although, Vodafone has declined all allegations of Pre-installed Virus in their Handsets and said that the infected Handset problem was isolated one.
On the other hand, Trend Micro threat researcher, Ryan Flores, believes that most likely a computer in Vodafone’s production line has been infected by WORM_SILLY.QT. And, because of the worm’s capability to propagate through removable drives, somehow SD cards in a certain batch of smartphones were infected.
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Its incredible that Mobiles can come with pre installed virus! We never heard of pre installed virus in a Dell PC! or ny other new PC for that matter. Does this not mean that handset makers are lax in security and is not much concerned about consumers.
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April 6th, 2010 at 6:25 am
yes but I think those mobiles are in Spain and not in India
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