Can mobile phone viruses attack SIM cards?

[ballina]

The area of mobile phone viruses is fast becoming fact rather than fiction with the first one announced on the 16th June. With this development, mobile phone security will become a much bigger field of research. A phone virus could easily be shown to wipe your contacts or SMS folder but does anyone know whether a virus could do any damage to the codes stored in the SIM card such as the Ki and the IMEI? If it could then it would render your SIM card useless. Is the area that these values are stored on the SIM card erasable or is it just readable? And where in the SIM card are the contacts and text messages held?

Any other ideas on mobile phone viruses are extremely welcome!

[SirGraham]

hi,

I have more experience in antivirus.

The first "virus/worn/trojan horse" to moviles is the cabir.

Cabir isn´t a virus is a worn. Really, the Cabir is a shit. It uses the Bluetooth system to duplicate. You can easy blocket the virus if you don´t confirm the transmision and instalation. Only works to Symbian serie 60.

It´s very complicated (impossible) that the people has contagiated with this worn.

You can (for example in symbian) to make a application (virus or not) to erase all data of the phone (phonebook, SMS, ect...) but you can not erase the Bios of the phone. This are like a normal computer. You can´t erase the IMEI....

For the moment, the virus for moviles this isn´t a menace.There isn´t a unique platform to expand a movile virus...

The antivirus companys use kind of news to sell more antivirus.....

Regards,
Sir Graham.