Monday, September 25, 2006

Protect Your Phone From viruses and worms .

Mobile viruses and worms attack smartphones because they have features similar to those of PCs and it can be your worst nightmare ever .

What Mobile viruses and worms can do ?

1.It can make your phone restarts every one minute
2.It goes scanning for available Bluetooth device around to send a copy of the virus all the time (( battery will run out fast ))
3.It can send MMS’s (multi media messages ) to everyone on your contacts with a copy of the virus .
4.It can make your phone to run very slow .
5.it can make international calls from your mobile .
AND LOTSSS MORE ..

HOW to protect your Smartphone from viruses and worms it soo simple ..

1.don’t ever install any unknown softwares .
2.don’t receive anything through Bluetooth from people you don’t know cause most of the time it can be the virus sending a copy of it self to all people around with active Bluetooth . Or if you want to accept to receive don’t open the message directly . press Exit – then go to the messages --- go to the inbox and if you found it a dot sis or something like that ( akvck.sis ) my advice to you is not to open it . cause sure that’s the virus .. anything else it safe ( but NEVER INSTALL ANY SOFTWARE YOU GOT IT THROUGH BLUETOOTH FROM ANYONE YOU DON’T KNOW OR YOU DONT TRUST )
3.it’s very important to always backup your phone regularly .
4.using an antivirus on your mobile is a good idea . it keeps you on the safe side .
5.if you receive an MMS from a friend , check the attachment and if you found it a (.sis ) ask him if he send it , cause some times it can be the virus sending a copy of it self to everyone of his contacts through GPRS .
These tips shell keep you really safe if you followed them carefully ..

Some good mobile antivirus and Advanced virus removal tools .

# free AntiCommWarrior and AntiCabir .
# F-Secure Anti-Virus 2006 .

2 comments:

DOMINI GIRL said...

i didndt know. that the phone take virus.. ('')
well.
i just greeting today and say hello.
bye!

Anthony Catuncan said...

I downloaded a copy of AntiCommwarrior from Handango and I was dissappointed very much. When I installed it, it made my N70 very slow to the point where it takes minutes to open the menu.