CCTV News reports MMS virus,
NetQin reminds you to be careful about mobile phone

Feb. 28th, 2006

If you think that mobile virus is far away from us, the report about multimedia message virus in the CCTV News Broadcast on Feb. 27 th 2006 should draw your attention. It noted that although computer virus is no stranger to us, nowadays more and more mobile viruses appear. A new kind of mobile virus travelling through multimedia message channel has already done damages to many mobile users. The report took Mr. Wang's experience as an example to illustrate the impact of one multimedia message virus. The unlucky mobile phone infected with this virus automatically sent the virus itself to the contacts in its address book every three seconds. At the rate of 0.5yuan per message, the mobile was charged 600yuan in one hour. The impact of mobile virus is obvious. (Please refer to http://www.cctv.com/news/xwlb/20060227/102120.shtml )

This news shows that mobile virus has really caused some serious destructive incidents in China. Actually, the threats of mobile virus are far beyond sending malicious message that cost you money. Today there are more than two hundred different kinds of mobile viruses. The damages that a mobile virus can make varies in different ways, they can be classified into 3 categories according to the t hreats imposed on users: economic loss, such as "help" you subscribing your mobile phone to different services that you don't want , making international phone calls, etc; credit loss, such as sending malicious messages to your contacts listed in your phone book; equipment and information loss, such as disabling your mobile system, making your mobile not able to be turned on, wiping out your memory or the phone book, even formatting your disks, and stealing your personal information from your mobile, etc. It poses serious crisis to the i nformation security so that we have to provide solution s to prevent our mobile phones from being infected .

As to be clear of mobile virus, the news introduced four precautious:

• Hide or turn off Bluetooth function in case the phone receiv e v irus automatically;
•  Do not download the software whose source is unknown;
•  Do not install the file that is sent through multimedia message or Bluetooth;
•  Install anti-virus software in your mobile.

As a leading company in the mobile anti-virus, NetQin Tech. Co., Ltd £¨ http://www.netqin.com/ £© has rich experiences in this field and develops mature, effective and convenient NetQin mobile anti-virus products to check and kill most of mobile viruses. At the end of 2005, we found that multimedia message virus spread in China (the same virus as mentioned in CCTV News), and remind users to pay attention by a news called ¡°Multi-media message virus erupted in homeland, NetQin remind you to strengthen wariness¡± in our homepages. On Jan 2nd 2006, we cooperated with China Computer Magazine (the most famous magazine of China in this area) to analyze the trend of mobile virus and to introduce our products. As a first-class innovation company in China , NetQin is open to the world. We have provided services to over 100,000 users from Asia, Europe and Australia . For the safety of your mobile phone, we suggest you to download NetQin mobile anti-virus software from NetQin website to enjoy your wireless information life.

It's very easy to obtain NetQin mobile anti-virus software. If your mobile has access to the network, you can input wap.netqin.com or m.netqin.comin your mobile phone browser to download and to install the software following the instructions. Please download appropriate version of software according to the model of your mobile. Or you can visit http://www.netqin.com/english/download.html via Internet to download the same software. NetQin mobile anti-virus system takes users' convenience into consideration. Following the menu, you can easily finish scanning and killing mobile virus within several steps, you can also go to http://www.netqin.com/ to download user's manual to learn more information to protect your mobile.

The problem of mobile viruses is definitely to be more and more serious, but with NetQin, you don't need to worry about it. NetQin is dedicated to provide the world 's first-class products and services for people all around the world. We will help you to enjoy your wireless information life during the "mobile virus Era".