A mobile phone (also called a cell) virus was equivalent to a computer virus, it infects the consumer mobile phones and distributed via MMS attachments, Internet downloads and Bluetooth transfers.
The most common form of mobile phone virus is traveling from computers to cell phones via infected files from Internet downloads. But phone calls about viruses, while less common, existed. The first known mobile virus Cabir was called and was discovered in June 2004 from Kaspersky Labs.
Cabir worm was coded to infect Symbian OS phones. Cabir is designed to search for all accessible phones using Bluetooth technology and a copy of itself to send the first one found. Setting up your phone in a non-discoverable (hidden) Bluetooth will protect your phone from Cabir worm. But once the phone is infected it will try to infect other systems even if you try to disable bluetooth from system settings. In 2005, the Cabir source code publicly available on the Internet.
The most common form of mobile phone virus is traveling from computers to cell phones via infected files from Internet downloads. But phone calls about viruses, while less common, existed. The first known mobile virus Cabir was called and was discovered in June 2004 from Kaspersky Labs.
Cabir worm was coded to infect Symbian OS phones. Cabir is designed to search for all accessible phones using Bluetooth technology and a copy of itself to send the first one found. Setting up your phone in a non-discoverable (hidden) Bluetooth will protect your phone from Cabir worm. But once the phone is infected it will try to infect other systems even if you try to disable bluetooth from system settings. In 2005, the Cabir source code publicly available on the Internet.
