SimWorks have discovered the first Symbian virus which is capable of spreading via MMS messages. The CommWarrior.a has been spotted in the wild.

Because the virus has actually been seen "in the wild", it isn't just a proof of concept virus and is therefore considered to be of some risk to mobile phone users.

SimWorks CEO Aaron Davidson says, "This is a significant development as until now mobile viruses have used Bluetooth to spread which only has a range of 10 meters surrounding the infected device. Using MMS viruses like CommWarrior have a much greater potential to spread globally."

The virus goes through the phone address book on the phone it has infected and will send further messages out to contacts which also contain the virus.

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