CELLULAR VIRUS ATTACK

Manjulata
Biswal
Reg.No. :
0301211012
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Virus, What is it ?

A computer program that is designed to replicate

itself by copying itself into the other programs
stored in a computer. It may be benign or have a
negative effect, such as causing a program to
operate incorrectly or corrupting a computer's
memory.
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MOBILE VIRUS :-
The viruses for WAP-enabled mobile devices
are the mobile virus.

CELL PHONE VIRUS :-

Viruses that can attack WAP-enabled
Cell phones
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WAP SECUIRITY PROBLEM:-

WAP gateway security

Operating system
Use of SMS
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WAP INFRASTRUCTURE
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Motive to create virus :-

Viruses are written for a variety of reasons

curiosity
Challenge
to gain wider attention
some antivirus companies want to enter
new market
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Virus Actions:-
Send SMS text messages to all the
numbers found within cell phone

damage by deleting or modifying the

phone book

starting to make phone calls to pay-per-

minute numbers
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CURRENT THREAT:-

CABIR
Symb/Cabir-A is a virus written
specifically for N-Gage, 3650, or
other Nokia Series 60 mobile phones
running in the Symbian operating
system. The virus spreads as a .sis
package, named as Caribe.sis
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Cabir requires:-

approving connection from unknown

device

approving receiving a file from unknown

device

approving receiving a application from

unknown device
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Reason to create cabir:-

There are two reasons behind Cabir creators :
some antivirus companies want to enter new
market.

May be Microsoft wants to show how insecure

Symbian OS is compared to their MS Smart phone
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Working function of cabir:-

When launched, the worm displays a message on the
screen: either 'Caribe' or 'Caribe - VZ/29a' . worm
itself is an SIS format file, called caribe.sis, of 15092
or 15104 bytes in size . This file contains three
objects:

caribe.app: 11932 / 11944 bytes in size

flo.mdl: 2544 bytes in size
caribe.rsc: 44 bytes in size
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The worm installs the three file to the following

directories

C:\system\apps\caribe\caribe.app
C:\system\apps\caribe\flo.mdl
C:\system\apps\caribe\caribe.rsc
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GET RID OF THIS VIRUS:-

The directory SYMBIANSECUREDATA which the worm
creates is hidden and cannot be seen by the user of the infected
telephone. Fexplorer isused to
delete those hidden files.

C:\SYSTEM\SYMBIANSECUREDATA\CARIBE
SECURITYMANAGER\ CARIBE.SIS
C:\SYSTEM\SYMBIANSECUREDATA\CARIBE
SECURITYMANAGER\ CARIBE.APP
C:\SYSTEM\SYMBIANSECUREDATA\CARIBE
SECURITYMANAGER\ CARIBE.RSC
C:\SYSTEM\RECOGS\FLO.MDL
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CONCLUSION:-

. There are so many antivirus applications for

Series 60 are already available in market.

 We should not accept files from unknown

people without confirmation .
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