Computer Viruses has now become very common and most of us have faced the after effects of a virus attack on our Pc. Well, that has now become history and the new target is our cell phones. Cell phone users are growing rapidly across the globe. The experts now say that, mobile phones are the next target for hi tech criminals and therefore exercise some caution for mobile phones. Since smart phone users are rising in count and lots of financial transactions takes place through mobile phones, any good hacker can get access to these data by sending simple viruses to the cell phone. On a symbian operating system, the virus spreads through the contact book and gets itself transfered

to an other phone while a call is been made. BBC reports that the mobile network operators get more than 100,000 virus incidences a day and the count is rising. The majority of the viruses on our cell phone masquerade as an Mp3 file , media file or a picture file. Therefore it is recommended that think twice before before opening an attachment from an unknown user and ensure that the bluetooth discovery mode is turned off.

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