HTC Magic for Vodafone has worm - Trend Micro reports

Viruses have known to be making an attempt to infect mobile phones. It has now been reported that the manufacturing lines of HTC Magic being offered by Vodafone are likely to have been infected. An Internet Security firm called Trend Micro has discovered the presence of the virus.

Vodafone’s HTC Magic runs on the Android operating system. It so happened that one of the infected handsets was received by an employee of an anti virus firm called Panda Security. The Trend Micro blog has reported that a worm WORM_SILLY.QT is spreading with the smart phone memory. The moment the phone is connected to the PC the worm infects the recipient computer.

Researchers at Trend Micro are convinced that one of the production lines has been infected. That is how the worm traveled to the SD cards of smartphones of a particular batch. It is expected that about 3000 mobile phones have been infected. Vodafone is known to have commented that the issue is localized to a batch of handsets shipped to Spain and it was being addressed by the company.