New Symbian Virus Makes Mobiles Useless
SimWorks is reporting a brand new virus that can severely disable a Symbian Phone to the point where it is unusable. Gavno.a is spread under the file-name patch.sis and masquerades as a patch for Symbian OS phones.
Gavno.a cripples a phone by using a malformed file to crash an internal Symbian process. This file can cause enough damage to a Symbian phone that it can no longer be used to make phone calls and may never be able to fully boot-up again.
SimWorks have also identified a second version of Gavno named Gavno.b. It is identical to Gavno.a except that its installation file, patch_v2.sis is somewhat larger as its payload includes a copy of the Cabir and Camtimer Trojans. When Gavno.b is installed Cabir attempts to send a copy of Gavno and the Camtimer Trojan to other nearby Symbian phones via Bluetooth. Gavno affects Series 60 phones using Symbian OS v7 such as the Nokia 6600 and 7610.
