Windows Mobile trojan sends unauthorized information and leaves device vulnerable

I was worried about the security of my Mobile phone so I looked into the antivirus and encryption software currently available. I went with Airscanner (Airscanner.com), which has different combo packages depending on what you’re looking for. They even have a 30 day trial period, which is great if you’re non-commital… but of course once I tried it I had to have it.

Truly truly i wrote today, we are in the process to errors and problems shifting paradigms. We are unable to combat desktops, viruses, worms, and Trojans, these epidemics are finding there ways to all the new technological innovations.

Solutions maybe the creations of protective shields by the OS and browsers producers, centralised active roles by all the mobiles telecommunications providers and centralised mobile users awareness.

We have to find solutions to many problems because the era of embedded systems utilisation is here and growing in magitudes.

in response to OSB,

You are joking right? Almost all new PDA phones are made with Windows CE in them. They are always connected to the Internet. Yes, it may be time to have Anti-Virus software on your PDA as stupid as it sounds.

Sounds like a fake to me.
It is such a difficult platform to exploit in terms of connectivity.
Pocket pcs are not as PCs always connected. It is not worth to consume that much precious space and memory, which can be easily spotted since the pda would be useless.

Does the McAfee PDA AV product stop this thing? Or does it just find it and tell you you are hosed?

Looking at the screen shot – the date of the autorun file is the 25th may 2006! Nearly 2 years ago, have McAfee known about this for that long and have only now decided to publicise it Our mobile antivirus software sales are flagging, lets drum up some publicity by saying theres a trojan about?

I am a Chinese.I can’t find it in Chinese website.Where do you find it?Maybe it’s the InfoStealer.A two months ago,isn’t it?

Where can I get the Trojan?

The thing that most upsets me is that McAfee didn’t find it right to publish the URL of the website that is spreading the virus.

We have the right to know that both for not going there and also for warning our readers not to visit this site anymore.

So, are we saying here that customers who downloaded Google Maps from Google have this malware?

Or that someone repackaged Google Maps, added their malware, and redistributed it?

Check Blackberry’s track-record dude when it comes to things like these!

Oh Great!!! … and having hear the good news I don’t hear anything about what we can do about it. Can we know what applications it was installed in? Can we know how it can be removed… ie scrape and reinstall? Can we actually get al itlle real information about this problem???

Dr. Bontchev…

It is a virus! But it hides inside and behind other install files. If I have my lexicon straight, a virus moves by human transmittal. A worm moves by automatic transmittal. A trojan pretends to be something it isn’t.

Ultimately, it’s malware, so the issue is a sidebar at best…

Does the trojan works on symbian S60 3rd edition?

Wow, the sound is so dangerous,
its time for Palm Inc. To develop new OS, Palm OS Cobalt is safer than WM.

Regards,
-rosgani-

and I was just reading the other day not to worry about installing ppc antivirus due to nothing really warranting heavy software installations

Why do you classify it as a Trojan?? According to the above description, if run on the device, it installs itself on the memory card. If a memory card containing it is inserted into a clean device, it runs automatically from the card and installs itself on the device.

Sounds like a full-blown virus to me.