New Malware affects Symbian take care with SMS

Sexy view is the name of this worm which has a valid certificate signed by Symbian, and it installs as a valid application. Once installed, the malicious program sends information like the serial number of the phone, and contact information, to a remote server. The worm propagates by sending SMS messages to those in the contact list with a malicious web address. If the receiver clicks on the URL, they also become infected.

This worm affects Symbian OS S60 3rd Edition, but it can also affect devices running Symbian OS S60 3rd Edition Feature Pack 1 like the Nokia N73

FortiGuard, security firm has notified Nokia and various carriers of the worm, BTW FortiGuard sells a mobile antivirus that can protect from the worm, and there is no patch for this besides the one provided by FortiGuard, so far. what a coincidence, don't you think?

So watch out your text messaging, and DO NOT open odd or unknown URL on your messages.

Heve fun!