virus ?

jac57 wrote:friend of mine has a 6600 and was in a club last night and he recieved a porn video from someone, then the same person sent a file called CARRIBE which he opened and now his phone will only switch on and not much else works ,it keeps restarting all the time, is this a virus and what should he do, never heard of a phone having a virus

Yes it is. is the first mobile virus for symbian systems.

To remove SymbOS.Cabir:

Install a file manager program on the phone.
Enable the option to view the files in the system directory.
Search the drives, A through Y, for the \SYSTEM\APPS\CARIBE directory.
Delete the files CARIBE.APP, CARIBE.RSC, and FLO.MDL from the \CARIB directory.
Go to the C:\SYSTEM\SYMBIANSECUREDATA\CARIBESECURITYMANAGER directory.
Delete the files CARIBE.APP, CARIBE.RSC, and CARIBE.SIS.
Go to the C:\SYSTEM\RECOGS directory.
Delete the file, FLO.MDL.
Go to the C:\SYSTEM\INSTALLS directory.
Delete the file, CARIBE.SIS.

Note: You cannot delete the file CARIBE.RSC when the program is running.

If you cannot delete this file in steps 4 and 6, delete all the files that you can, restart the phone, and then delete the CARIBE.RSC file.

Hi,

Has anyone got this as a SIS file I could have for testing purposes? (I work for Sendo)

PM me a link to it if possible. Probably best to NOT post the link in the forum, as someone is bound download and install it !! 😊

Thanks,

plinkykev