Viruses in smartphone games can cause unexpected charges
By siliconindia   |   Monday, 07 June 2010, 20:36 IST   |    2 Comments
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Viruses in smartphone games can cause unexpected charges
Bangalore: Hackers have planted viruses in games meant for smartphones running on Windows OS. Victims generally do not realize that they have been infected until they get their phone bills and see hundreds of dollars of unexpected charges for those services. The services are run by the programmers, who built the polluted software, reports Reuters. The games '3D Anti-Terrorist and PDA Poker Art' are available on sites that provide legitimate software for mobile devices. The games are bundled with malicious software that automatically dials premium-rate telephone services in Somalia, Italy and other countries, sometimes ringing up hundreds of dollars in charges in a single month. Hackers are increasingly targeting Smartphone users as sales of the sophisticated mobile devices have soared with the success of Apple's iPhone and Google's Android operating system. Microsoft said it was aware of the problem and investigating it. "As always, Microsoft continues to encourage customers to follow all of the steps of the 'Protect Your Computer' guidance of enabling a firewall, applying all software updates and installing anti-virus and anti-spyware software," said a spokesman.

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