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Antivirus company warns of new Trojan

Antivirus software company F-Secure Corp. is warning mobile phone users about a new malicious software program infecting phones that use the Symbian Series 60 operating system. Fontal.A is transferred to mobile phones as a SIS format installer file called Kill Saddam By OID500.sis. Once installed, the program damages the phone such that it cannot reboot. Users of mobile phones infected with Fontal.A should not turn off their phones before removing the Trojan, F-Secure said. The company posted instructions for removing the Trojan from infected phones on its web page.

Malicious programs that run on mobile platforms such as Symbian have become more common since Cabir, the first mobile worm, was identified...

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