Honest 836 Report post Posted January 1, 2009 S60 Messaging Bug Discovered Reports are in of a potential 'messaging virus' that could possibly be a major issue for Nokia Series 60 devices. This phenomenon being called The "Curse of Silence," essentially prevents the mobile handsets running versions 2.6, 2.8, 3.0 or 3.1 to stop receiving SMS, MMS and email messages. According to the same reports this is how the bug works – an SMS that contains up to 32 characters minimum will be received. It will have a space at the end and would be an email address. The protocol identifier will be changed to internet electronic mail before it’s sent. It’s recommended that you regularly sync and back up your data as the only way to unlock the device after receiving The "Curse of Silence," is to hard reset it. For those of you who don’t know how simply type *#7370# from the keypad. Another way to do it is by keeping the green Call key + * + 3 pressed simultaneously till the handset restarts. Testing has shown that after receiving about 11 messages of this nature handsets that run on versions 2.8 and 3.1 will lock up but still have limited receiving capabilities. Mobiles with visions 2.6 and 3.0 will stop sending after one message. Courtesy : Tech2 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Mufaddal 678 Report post Posted January 1, 2009 (edited) the last line says that this bug is been tested that means the malware was encoded for test purposes most of this mlawares are nothing but gimmicks by those anti virus companies who want to sell the mobile versions of their anti virus ....if people arent scared like this then no one wud buy a 15 $ anti virus for symbian and by the way this bug was demonstarted /explained by F SECURE the company which makes anti virus s/ws for mobile phones ... ..infact smartphone users neeed to do a lot wrong to get infected especially when it comes to s60 3.1.and later Edited January 1, 2009 by mufaddal_km Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
