+ Trojan horse takes down smart phones - Fontal.A

[Apocalypso]

SF news
07 April 2005

Fontal.A
New trojan that disables the phone so that it wont reboot

A new Trojan horse hitting Symbian 60 Series handsets makes the phone useless until it's reformatted, deleting all the stored data, said a Finnish security firm Wednesday.

F-Secure said that the Fontal.a Trojan installs a corrupted font file into targeted handsets, causing them to fail at startup. Rebooting the phone by turning it off, then on, only compounds the problem, since the phone then essentially locks up. "Currently the only known way to disinfect a phone that is infected with Fontal and is rebooted, is to reformat the phone, thus loosing all data on the phone," said F-Secure in its online advir...


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-=[ New Smartphone Worm: Fontal.A - full story]=- (http://www.symbian-freak.com/news/0405/fontaia.htm)

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[farsh2002]

Thanks for info.

;-) ;-) ;-)

[Apocalypso]

Thanks for info.

;-) ;-) ;-)

anytime :P

[momagic]

fuck!!!

this sounds like what happened to my ngage, it just dont switch on!!!!

but this happened to my ngage like 2 weeks ago

thanksfor the info dude

[Apocalypso]

fuck!!!

this sounds like what happened to my ngage, it just dont switch on!!!!

but this happened to my ngage like 2 weeks ago

As the three key bootup trick dosent work on older phone (OS6) all u can try is to pull out MMC and restart phone in safe mode (hold down pencil key)..



thanksfor the info dude

As I already said, anytime ;))

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[momagic]

thank you very much mate nice site!

[Apocalypso]

thank you very much mate
N P anytime,


nice site!

thx ;)


BTW:
The Fontal.A description now contains disinfection instructions both for disinfection by Anti-Virus and manually using third party file manager.

The disinfection was a lot easier than we originally thought it to be. Due to the fact that the trojan disables only the application manager. But the warning about not rebooting the phone still holds, as after trying to boot the phone it won't start, and neither of the instructions on the description will help after that.

So it seems that, as always, the most important instruction is "Don't panic"


Hope this helps guys,

Cheers ;)