Shortly after its first appearance in North America, experts noted the first case of mobile phones infected with Cabir virus in Australia.
One business partner of Simworks, a Sydney-based mobile antivirus company, says his Nokia 6600 smartphone has been infected by Cabir from a smartphone. of a taxi driver while traveling north of Sydney. SimWorks warns that the first case of Cabir infection has been reported in Australia.
Chris Wooldridge, chief executive of mobile phone service company Bullant Software, says that his Nokia 6600 has received a message "Get Connected From Abdul" on Tuesday afternoon. 2 weeks after stepping out of a taxi.
Then the taxi driver told Wooldridge that he was also Abdul, and Wooldridge asked Abdul why he sent the message to him. The taxi driver said that he had this problem several times on the Nokia 6630. I do not know how to overcome.
Wooldridge said that other taxi drivers in the area were also infected by the same virus via the Blutooth port of their smartphone while driving or communicating with colleagues.
Although Wooldridge did not open the messages he had read to read, the worm had accidentally dug into his cell phone.
This Cabir was easily destroyed by Wooldridge's mobile anti-virus software, but taxi drivers complained that since the "strange phenomenon" occurred, the batteries in their smartphones had been " eating "at the speed of code. Taxi drivers said they were completely unaware that the virus could be transmitted to customers via Bluetooth.
The Cabir was first discovered in June 2004 and was quickly ranked as a dangerous virus. It has the ability to distribute itself directly by sending itself via the short-wave protocol of the Bluetooth wireless interface and it has the ability to quickly drain the phone's battery. To prevent infection, smartphones should be set up in "discoverable" mode.
