MMS virus out broke in China,
NetQin reminds you to be careful about your smart phone

Jan. 11th, 2006

infected with a MMS virus called Commwarrior A. It spreads itself by sending one multi-media message to a random mobile phone number every 3 seconds. According to the charging rate in China at 0.6 £¤ /3s, this mobile will be charged with 720 £¤ (about 90$) in one hour. Meanwhile, many mobile carriers in Guangdong , Shanghai , Peking , Yunnan and etc, have also been disrupted with this virus.

This virus spreads itself in two ways in different time s of a day: during 8:00am to 23:59pm it will search nearby Bluetooth devices, and once it find such devices, it randomly sends itself or infected .sis files (containing virus itself) to them. During 00:00 to 6:59am it reads telephone numbers in the local address book, and then sends multi-media message including .sis files of Commwarrior, and spam short messages to all these telephone numbers.

We remind smart phone users to pay more attention to this virus. Meanwhile, you can choose NetQin mobile anti-virus system to check and kill all kinds of mobile viruses, and to protect your smart phones.

If you find that your mobile has been infected with this virus, you can download ¡°NetQin mobile anti-virus software¡± in our website (http://www.netqin.com ). The download address of NetQin mobile anti-virus system is http://www.netqin.com/english/download.html. You can also download the same software with GPRS as follows:

•  open your browser in your mobile phone
•  log in wap.netqin.com or m.netqin.com
•  download appropriate files according to the model of your mobile phone
•  install NetQin mobile anti-virus software
•  start NetQin system
•  start virus scanning (all disks are recommended) and monitoring (recommended)
•  restart mobile to kill the Commwarrior process in the memory of mobile phone

After all the above steps, if you want to delete some redundant files, you can go to \system\apps\CommWarrior and delete them directly (with SelectQ, Fileman or F-Explorer). You also can delete them by uninstalling program.

Then, Commwarriror will disappear from your mobile completely.

Additionally, NetQin mobile anti-virus system has real-time monitoring functions, including detecting changes of file systems, scanning messages received from Bluetooth, infrared, GPRS, multi-media message, network ports, etc, to find and kill virus at the very beginning.