Are you affected by the "Curse of Silence" ?
You just stop receiving any text message: "People who send messages to me may report that they get a delivery report, but I don't get any SMS on my Nokia phone !"
It can be almost classified as a mobile virus or malware, but ti isn't - but unlike other mobile malware : This can affect the user without any interaction from his/her part.
Released when the new year of 2009 began, the following advisory shows how some Nokia phones can be made to stop receiving SMS simply by sending it a text message (SMS) formatted in a special way. It can be sent by fairly any normal Nokia phone but it affects only specific Nokia smartphone models.
http://berlin.ccc.de/~tobias/cos/s60-curse-of-silence-advisory.txt
This is not much of a problem now since most mobile service providers now block the malformed messages that do this, but just in case you want to be safe, nokia has released a patch for the so called "Curse of silence"
The Curse f Silnce cleaner can be downloaded from Nokia's website.
Update: Android Whatsapp bug in 2014 that did a similar thing.
Update : iPhone bug crashes iMessenger with an evil text message "effective Power Arabic"
Here's the direct link to the smscleaner
Install and run the application to remove the offending text messages if you have been sent any.
Please do leave a comment if you were affected - who did it, why and did they tell you ?
You just stop receiving any text message: "People who send messages to me may report that they get a delivery report, but I don't get any SMS on my Nokia phone !"
It can be almost classified as a mobile virus or malware, but ti isn't - but unlike other mobile malware : This can affect the user without any interaction from his/her part.
Released when the new year of 2009 began, the following advisory shows how some Nokia phones can be made to stop receiving SMS simply by sending it a text message (SMS) formatted in a special way. It can be sent by fairly any normal Nokia phone but it affects only specific Nokia smartphone models.
http://berlin.ccc.de/~tobias/cos/s60-curse-of-silence-advisory.txt
Affected phones are :This might work out to be a nasty prank since its very easy to do and the receiver doesn't even know when he gets it.
S60 3rd Edition, Feature Pack 1 (S60 3.1): Nokia E90 Communicator Nokia E71 Nokia E66 Nokia E51 Nokia N95 8GB Nokia N95 Nokia N82 Nokia N81 8GB Nokia N81 Nokia N76 Nokia 6290 Nokia 6124 classic Nokia 6121 classic Nokia 6120 classic Nokia 6110 Navigator Nokia 5700 XpressMusic S60 3rd Edition, initial release (S60 3.0): Nokia E70 Nokia E65 Nokia E62 Nokia E61i Nokia E61 Nokia E60 Nokia E50 Nokia N93i Nokia N93 Nokia N92 Nokia N91 8GB Nokia N91 Nokia N80 Nokia N77 Nokia N73 Nokia N71 Nokia 5500 Nokia 3250 S60 2nd Edition, Feature Pack 3 (S60 2.8): Nokia N90 Nokia N72 Nokia N70 S60 2nd Edition, Feature Pack 2 (S60 2.6): Nokia 6682 Nokia 6681 Nokia 6680 Nokia 6630
This is not much of a problem now since most mobile service providers now block the malformed messages that do this, but just in case you want to be safe, nokia has released a patch for the so called "Curse of silence"
The Curse f Silnce cleaner can be downloaded from Nokia's website.
Update: Android Whatsapp bug in 2014 that did a similar thing.
Update : iPhone bug crashes iMessenger with an evil text message "effective Power Arabic"
Here's the direct link to the smscleaner
Install and run the application to remove the offending text messages if you have been sent any.
Please do leave a comment if you were affected - who did it, why and did they tell you ?
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