Strange one!

TerrorFirmer

Not so much a question as just an odd experience. My Girlfriend bought a 512mb Kingston MMC card for her N70 - it was not sealed but was 'new'. She's had it no problems prior to this.

She has Symantec AV on her phone, as do I, but in all honesty I've never had mine detect anything nor has she. We put in the memory card - almost immediately - "CommWarrior infection detected!"

Phone is now totally borked, sending messages to other people and randomly powering off.

Again, its not a question, we know what CW is and how to get rid of it, but to think it came from a new card? Did some asshole deliberating use it, and return it for fun? We brought it back to where we got it and they were really helpful and rather embarrassed, took the phone in to reflash it.

Just thought it was a tad strange...

Pythia

You really can't say for certain, unless maybe you put the card into another phone and see if the same thing happens.

Generally, shops wouldn't sell 'second' items, but maybe this got through the net.

digitally-yours

what would i do in this situation :rolleyes:

See if i can put a sim which has no credit on it and then go in the system and take that software out

Normally you should always format card before using it.

Having antivirus in the phone i dont buy that idea

Phones are not like computers
you can get infected because of your own mistakes
if you would have scanned that card using ur pc and then would have formated it i dont think u had any risk there

its my opinion !

TerrorFirmer

digitally-yours wrote:

what would i do in this situation :rolleyes:

See if i can put a sim which has no credit on it and then go in the system and take that software out

Normally you should always format card before using it.

Having antivirus in the phone i dont buy that idea

Phones are not like computers
you can get infected because of your own mistakes
if you would have scanned that card using ur pc and then would have formated it i dont think u had any risk there

its my opinion !

In fairness most people, when they buy a new card, do not think they need to re-format it. Maybe you do, but its hardly 'our own mistake' for simply putting what was supposed to be a brand new card into the phone. And what's wrong with Anti Virus on a phone? Just phone a Symbian phone isn't 'like a computer' doesn't take away from the fact that people write viruses for the Symbian OS as well.

And you can't just casually browse the phones system folders and remove CommWarrior. You need to flash the phone.

digitally-yours

She has Symantec AV on her phone.....

so whats the point of having antivirus if it dosent protect you ?

I worked for the company in question

The truth is that Your Antivirus is as good as its virus definetions and with mobile phones this is not possible to update them 2 times everyday.
So that defeats the purpose

Yes there are viruses everywhere but they infect u with reason and logic
its all methamatics.for every occourance there has to be a reason.

in your case u inserted the card without formating believing it to be safe !

http://www.symantec.com/security_response/writeup.jsp?docid=2005-030721-2716-99

here is the antivirus product addressing that issue but i delieve it didnt have the update to deal with that issue so it went un noticed.

Discovered: March 7, 2005
Updated: April 10, 2006 11:25:32 AM ZE9
Also Known As: Commwarrior.A [F-Secure], SymbOS/Commwarrior.a [McAfee], SYMBOS_COMWAR.A [Trend Micro]
Type: Worm
Systems Affected: EPOC

Removal using the Symantec Mobile Threats Removal Tool
Symantec Security Response has developed a removal tool to clean the infections of SymbOS.Commwarrior.A. Use this removal tool first, as it is the easiest way to remove this threat.

Manual Removal:
To remove SymbOS.Commwarrior.A:

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\commwarrior directory.
Delete the files commwarrior.exe and commrec.mdl.
Go to the \system\updates\commwarrior directory.
Delete the files commwarrior.exe, commrec.mdl, and commw.sis.
Go to the \system\recogs directory.
Delete the file commrec.mdl.


Its a year old virus so u definately havent updated ur virus definetions

having virus protection and not updating is like having no protection at all

ethernet

I also have the N70. That AV was awful -- updating virus definitions would rob you on GPRS!

I uninstall the AV and reformatted my memory card. Should even improve performance. Failing that, she could back up contacts, messages, media, etc. and reflash the phone.