Thursday, March 18, 2010

Found Again, Malware at HTC's Android phone


Traces of the former Mariposa botnet that has not been found to function in Magic HTC phones in circulation by the operator Vodafone in Spain. The information disclosed by Panda, a security specialist firm on their official blog.

Once again, the malware is found again on the memory card SD card that is sent in packets Android-based smartphone in question.

Previously, 8 March, Vodafone spokesman has stated that these cases are unintentional mistake and did not affect many products. However, Pedro Bustamante, Senior Research Adviser Panda said that it is associated with a particular Refurbish phone.

With the emergence of this second case, it appears that there are bigger problems in the quality assurance, especially for mobile phones produced in a given period. "We also found copies of the worm Win32/AutoRun the memory card in the phone," said Bustamante, as VIVAnews quotes from PCWorld, March 18, 2010.

The second infection was first invented by an employee S21sec, security companies from Spain. When found, the employee who sent the card to the Panda problem to be studied. The phone in question he had bought directly from the Vodafone site in the same week bought the first mobile phone virus discovered.

Currently, according to a spokesman for Vodafone said the company was still researching the first case was revealed. With the emergence of the second case, he asserted that Vodafone is serious in menanganani case and ready to take the steps deemed necessary.

The emergence of cases of malicious programs on this Android phone instantly benefit DroidSecurity and software, made by a company from Israel's security. The reason mobile device security software made directly downloaded by 10,500 new users within 24 hours after reporting the discovery of the virus on Android phones.

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