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The Da Vinci Code Infects Your Phone

posted onMay 24, 2006
by hitbsecnews

The popularity around Dan Brown’s book, The Da Vinci Code, couldn’t have
gone unexploited by virus authors, who would do anything to spread their malicious creations. According to the Mid Day Indian Daily, a virus bearing the name of the bestseller book has infected dozens of phones in India.

The virus spreads via wireless Bluetooth technology, and causes a message to pop up on Bluetooth devices: ‘Receive message via Bluetooth from Da Vinci Code?’

The malicious code is extremely dangerous, once the message is accepted, all the data on the phone being destroyed.

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