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Skulls Cell Phone Virus Being Resurrected By Skulls.D
Jeremy L. Muncy
Staff Writer
2005-01-03
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A new variant of the Skulls virus, first discovered back in mid-November, has been discovered and is ready to make the rounds again.
The original virus killed applications and replaced their icons with a skull image. The new variant, Skulls.D, goes a little further… it shows a full-screen skull image when the phone is rebooted. The picture of the skull includes the text: "WARNING!!! Device Have been Attact By Virus".
F-Secure has said that their Mobile Anti-Virus was already "capable of detecting the Skulls.D with generic detection even before we got the first sample of this from a customer.
Skulls.D is a Trojan, so it doesn't spread further from affected cell phones.
About the Author:
Jeremy Muncy is the editor of http://www.SecurityProNews.com.
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