Arrghhh!!!!
My mobile seems to have been infected with a virus.
Today I was just going through my phone opening messages in my inbox and then deleting them if I didn't want them anymore. I noticed in my Inbox, there was a text message from "Unknown Sender" which I don't remember receiving. The message was marked as opened and replied to.
My phone shows some of the first line of text of messages in my inbox before I open them and the first part of the text from "Unknown Sender" looked something like this: @!"£$@:a:v)%
Basically, it was a bunch of symbols and letters which caused me to think it must be a virus because I had never seen it in my inbox before and certainly not replied to it. Anyway, text messages never appear from "Unknown Sender". If the person isn't saved in your contacts, then their number appears in your inbox.
Well, I scrolled up and down my inbox and noticed that as I was doing this some of my text messages were duplicating themselves. I went and deleted "Unknown Sender" without opening it, but it still appeared in my inbox, so I deleted it again and it was still there so again I deleted it and it seemed to have gone.
So I continued and deleted messages I didn't want before noticing they were duplicating again and "Unknown Sender" was back!! I had to delete it several times before it went away again. But in the end, I just deleted everything in my inbox.
That virus would explain why alot of my pictures have corrupted and disappeared and all my videos have been wiped and also why the camera on my phone no longer works.
It's a bit scary to have a virus thing like that, not to mention extremely annoying. I'm worried that it's accessed my address book and has sent itself to my contacts. I'm not sure whether its still in my phone or not.
I've googled and can't really find anything about it. I've read about other american viruses that completely wipe everything and you have to buy a new phone.
Has anyone heard of a virus like this or got any ideas about what I should do?
Today I was just going through my phone opening messages in my inbox and then deleting them if I didn't want them anymore. I noticed in my Inbox, there was a text message from "Unknown Sender" which I don't remember receiving. The message was marked as opened and replied to.
My phone shows some of the first line of text of messages in my inbox before I open them and the first part of the text from "Unknown Sender" looked something like this: @!"£$@:a:v)%
Basically, it was a bunch of symbols and letters which caused me to think it must be a virus because I had never seen it in my inbox before and certainly not replied to it. Anyway, text messages never appear from "Unknown Sender". If the person isn't saved in your contacts, then their number appears in your inbox.
Well, I scrolled up and down my inbox and noticed that as I was doing this some of my text messages were duplicating themselves. I went and deleted "Unknown Sender" without opening it, but it still appeared in my inbox, so I deleted it again and it was still there so again I deleted it and it seemed to have gone.
So I continued and deleted messages I didn't want before noticing they were duplicating again and "Unknown Sender" was back!! I had to delete it several times before it went away again. But in the end, I just deleted everything in my inbox.
That virus would explain why alot of my pictures have corrupted and disappeared and all my videos have been wiped and also why the camera on my phone no longer works.
It's a bit scary to have a virus thing like that, not to mention extremely annoying. I'm worried that it's accessed my address book and has sent itself to my contacts. I'm not sure whether its still in my phone or not.
I've googled and can't really find anything about it. I've read about other american viruses that completely wipe everything and you have to buy a new phone.
Has anyone heard of a virus like this or got any ideas about what I should do?
posted by Catpee at 9:53 pm
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