+ Trojan horse takes down smart phones - Fontal.A

::SF news :

::07 April 2005:

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::Fontal.A:

::New trojan that disables the phone so that it wont reboot :

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::A new Trojan horse hitting Symbian 60 Series handsets makes the phon
useless until it's reformatted, deleting all the stored data, said
Finnish security firm Wednesday. :

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::F-Secure said that the Fontal.a Trojan installs a corrupted font fil
into targeted handsets, causing them to fail at startup. Rebooting th
phone by turning it off, then on, only compounds the problem, since th
phone then essentially locks up. \"Currently the only known way t
disinfect a phone that is infected with Fontal and is rebooted, is t
reformat the phone, thus loosing all data on the phone,\" said F-Secur
in its online advir...:

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