Warning To Nokia Users
 

WARNING!
Those of you who use a Nokia 6210, 3310 and 3330 phones...

New text message Virus that can lock your mobile phone for good...

http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/55/23080.html



Why are there always people out there who want to attack us in some way...if its not out pcs...now its our mobile phones :twisted:

Re: Warning To Nokia Users
 

Not that new...

"How to crash a phone by SMS
By John Leyden
Posted: 28/11/2001 at 18:20 GMT"

And it's been fixed in all recent models, so no real hazard here.

Ice

More...

"Mr de Haas works in the Internet security business, and his company's policy is to publish all potential flaws in security. We are grateful that he has turned to us on this issue first..," said Nokia in a global statement. "We wish to assure our customers that the actual likelihood of receiving such a message is extremely small, and has so far only been produced under controlled laboratory conditions."

Software upgrades will not be available for existing handsets, as it is "extremely unlikely" for this particular crash scenario to occur in the real world, said the spokesperson.

Still, Nokia's newly manufactured phones will come with modified software, supposedly removing the risk altogether, she added. "

This was published in 2001 at http://asia.cnet.com/reviews/handpho...9005322,00.htm

Ice

The b***ards! Thanks for that kev...

right, time to thief a new phone. any reviews on anything good?