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Offline MWassef

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Symbian OS viruses
« on: May 04, 2006, 05:34:57 PM »
this is a snapshot from virustotal.com, avast can't /won't detect Sumbian OS viruses.  ::)
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Re: Symbian OS viruses
« Reply #1 on: May 04, 2006, 05:42:58 PM »
The symbian OS is usually used in PDA and mobile phones, a search of the virus databas for symb returns 42 worm and trojan entries for symb. So this may be a new varient as the symbos:commwarrier [wrm] is on the list.

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Re: Symbian OS viruses
« Reply #2 on: May 04, 2006, 08:14:31 PM »
I did, thanx  :)
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