Mobile Phone Virus !!

[A face]

It erases all your info ... IME no's and stuff (???)... you'know the important stuff.


ACE appears on the screen of an incoming call !!

3 million phones have been infected in the states .... !!


Anyone know anymore !! can you answer calls with caller ID hidden ??

[Macy]

Got a mail forwarded saying to check out CNN if you didn't believe it. I did, and there was sod all on it. The only mention was an article about the possibilities of them being developed - and that was dated 2001!

[tetsujin1979]

It's a hoax

from snopes (http://www.snopes.com/computer/virus/mobile.htm)

Origins:

This warning first appeared on the Internet in 1999, when it cautioned cell phone users to beware of answering calls from "UNAVAILABLE." In 2002 the hoax was revived for another run, this time cautioning mobile chatters against taking calls from "ACE-?".

There is no such threat. No mobile phone viruses capable of infecting cell phones and erasing SIM cards have yet been discovered.

Hoaxes often contain claims that authoritative sources have confirmed the substance of the warnings, and this one is no exception. It asserts that both Nokia and Motorola validate the information and that CNN has run at least one item about it, yet both Nokia and Motorola label this a hoax, and a search of CNN's site turns up no story about this "virus." It's a hoax all the way down.

In June 2000, an instance of a computer virus that affected cell phones was recorded, although this wasn't a case of a malevolent program inserted into the phones themselves; the cells were merely the final destination of the leg-pull. The "Timofonica" virus was designed to send prank messages to cell phones on the Telefonica cellular network, which operates in Spain. The virus worked like this: victims would receive it as an e-mail attachment on their home or work computers. When users opened the infected attachments, the virus, plus a message critical of Telefonica, would be sent to every e-mail address in their address books. The virus would also trigger the each victim's computer to send a text message to a randomly-selected cell phone on Telefonica's network.

Timofonica did not harm cell phones any more than a wrong number call damages any phone. However, as wireless technology grows more sophisticated, so does the risk that one of these days there really will be a real virus launched against cell phones, one that will force its way into units and do nasty little things to them once it's in there. There are also concerns that the rush to get new technology onto the market sometimes results in not nearly enough care being given to security issues.

[A face]

All clear so !!