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CommWarrior.A

A mobile phone virus that spreads through Mobile Messaging Services (MMS) on Symbian Series 60 mobile phones has been discovered. The virus is capable of spreading through Bluetooth also. When Commwarrior infects a phone it will start searching other phones that in can reach over Bluetooth and send infected SIS files to the phones it finds. The SIS files that Comwarrior sends are named with random file names, so that users cannot be warned to avoid files with any given name. It also sends a copy of itself to numbers available of the address book of the victim through MMS. More information is available from the following sites.

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Indian Computer Emergency Response Team (CERT-In)
Ministry of Communications and Information Technology
Electronics Niketan
6, C.G.O. Complex
New Delhi-110 003