Re: mobile phones, credit and viruses


"Howard Neil" <hneil@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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Jim Webster wrote:
I had to phone O2 again as they still haven't got the credit on my
phone.

However when I was in the O2 store in London asking what was happening
there
was a chap there who had a virus on his mobile phone. Apparently at
regular
intervals it sent texts to everyone in his address book
whether these were worms which did the same to the recipient I wouldn't
know, but it sounded more like a mobile phone company money raising
operation than a virus to me!

It is possible for viruses to be transmitted to a mobile 'phone that has
Bluetooth on it. For this to happen, the victim has to have Bluetooth
set to be visible to other Bluetooth devices and be within a short
distance of such a device that is sending the virus. Anyone leaving
their 'phone open to such an attack is more likely to find themselves
the victim of information theft, though, as criminals hack into your
'phone and copy all the data held in it.

given the size of photo files mobile phones send to each other, couldn't
viruses be transmitted in those?


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Jim Webster.

Pat Gardiner, now in the sixth year of raving about bent vets and still no
result


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