Mobile Text virus?

payless

My wife keeps getting text messages with a download attachment ... that does not seem to download anyway

annoying, but not causing any great harm ... except when she is on call at night , and if they come at night , they wake me up ( and I have trouble getting back to sleep)

Ring the number back... not attainable, try and text STOP ... can't send

dopne some searching ... sounds like it might be Symb/Comwar-A
http://www.sophos.com/virusinfo/analyses/symbcomwara.html
( she does not have a symbian / Nokia phone- maybe thats why it does not download - she does not therefore seem to be passing it on)

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Edit , as typing this I called it again.... got her Nephew .... his phone got a virus !

Matt_Nixon

That Virus will only run on a Symbian Handset, if the virus doesn't run it won't pass itself on. My wifes keeps getting these on her Motorola V600, we just delete them, yet to find out who's got the virus though.

payless

I checked the sender...and phoned back ( does not seem to hid / mask it)

Yeah |I was not that bothered as it was not downloading... but after losing 3 hours sleep after getting woken by it this time, decided to check it out

nailman

My Phone Just Keeps Sending Out The Messages

Any One Know How To Stop It

orange are no help and it looks like ill have to scrap the phone

payless

http://www.pandasoftware.com/virus_info/encyclopedia/overview.aspx?lst=sol&idvirus=61929 talks about deleting files

or can you do a software reset?

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BTW you aren'y my wife's nephew are you!

nailman

payless thanks for that i think ive cured it

btw im from coventry if that answers your question

wazza

nailman wrote:

payless thanks for that i think ive cured it

btw im from coventry if that answers your question

how did u cure it? software reset or checked for virus listed inlink above? what phone do u have?

nailman

started sending messages agian about 1 hour later
so ive got something new to try will let u know if it works