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Mobile Viruses....Whats the damage? Whats the antivirus ?

Whats the threat?

Imagine if someone were to erase y

According to USFDA, a combination product is one composed of any combination of a drug and device; biological product and device; drug and biological product

our phone book - or worse still, steal it?

Imagine if someone were reading your text messages and personal emails - how would you feel?

Imagine

; or drug, device, and biological product and fixed dose combination would include two or more combinations of drug.

Examples of combination products may in

/strong> if someone could trace your bank details, or other sensitive information from your phone.

Imagine if someone could add just 10p a month to your

lude drug-coated devices, drugs packaged with delivery devices in medical kits, and drugs and devices packaged separately but intended to be used together.

bill. Would you notice? How much could they regularly take from your account before you would be alerted to it?

Imagine if someone stole your identity?

here is enormous increase in the number of combination products entering the market in the recent years. Combination products have proven advantages but fixe

ithout virus protection you run the risk of ID theft, these details are easy to obtain from your mobile.

Imagine if you simply could not use your phone.

d dose combinations are still in the process of convincing regulatory authority on their advantages over the single ingredient formulations.

Combination pro

This list above is what is under threat by a mobile virus getting into your cell or symbian devices, once in your Phone, PDA , Pocket Pc or what ever you call you device

ucts have become life saving products for the pharmaceutical companies who doesn’t have many innovative molecules in their product pipeline and have been inc

any or all of the above could happen.

Many Of the Threats Listed Below can be avoided by being careful what texts and emails you open. Have you ever received a text mes

easingly used in the product life cycle management. Even the companies having product patents are trying to extend their product life cycle through the combi

age offering a free mp3, software download or something more suggestive? you may have downloaded a virus.

Here are some examples Of the viruses out there and

nation products and maximize the revenues. But the companies involved in this practice are overlooking that they are burdening the patients both economically

hat they do

Doomed : What does this virus do? This virus arrives disguised as an installer for a normal application, when run it

and physically. They need to rightly judge the benefits of the combination products and they have to even look at the risks involved when combining the produ

tops normal applications on your phone from working, prevents your phone from restarting properly and introduces and runs SymbOS/Skulls, SymbOS/CardBlock, SymbOS/CardTrap

ts. Some of the combination products were well accepted by physicians while others suffered. Companies involved in development of combination products are fi

SymbOS/Fontal, SymbOS/CommWarrior and SymbOS/Cabir. The virus can also sometimes cause other Bluetooth devices in the vicinity of the infected one to restart.

SymbOS/Do

ding difficulty in defining their combination products and facing various challenges from selecting a combination to marketing it.

Following aspects would a

omed arrives as a SIS installer disguised as a normal application. Some known applications it uses for cover are:

Double Process Speed v6.1.3 by DFT Effects v1.05 by Dj

dd to the challenges in developing combination products:

Which markets to tap where the combination products can do fairly well?
Which combination prod

6230 exoVirusStop v2.13.16 Doom 2

It usually has three primary payloads:

Disable normal applications
Prevents proper phone boot
Drops and e

cts are meaningful and rational?
Which therapeutic categories to select?
Which Combinations can address unmet needs of the patients?
Do combin

ecutes other Symbian virusesCommWarrior : What does this virus do?

This virus will reset your phone on the first hour of the 14th of ev

tions increase the patient compliance?
What would be the developing cost?
How to tackle the risks encountered during combination product developmen

ry month. It spreads using Bluetooth and MMS utilising your phonebook contacts to send the MMS to.

SymbOS/CommWarrior is the first known mobile malware that spreads via

t?

As combination products don't fit into the traditional categories of drugs, medical devices, or biological products, the USFDA is in the process of devel

oth Bluetooth and Multimedia Messaging Service (MMS). It can also be downloaded from malicious web sites as an archive file named COMMWARRIOR.ZIP.

It affects phones runn

ping new procedures for reviewing their safety, efficacy and quality.

Professional from academic institutions, pharmaceutical industries, health care indust

ng the Symbian S60 platform. Some phones affected by SymbOS/CommWarrior include the following:

Nokia 3650, 3600 Nokia 3660, 3620 Nokia 6600 Nokia 6620 Nokia 7610

y and representatives from various regulatory agencies are working out to design the regulatory requirements for manufacture and sale of combination products

Nokia 7650 Nokia N-Gage Panasonic X700 Sendo X Siemens SX1

Bluetooth Propagation

Once running in a device, SymbOS/CommWarrior searc

.

As there is an increasing trend of the combination products companies manufacturing such products should be able to tackle the problems involved in the de

es for other phones with Bluetooth. Once a target phone is found, it sends a randomly named SIS file to the target.

The SIS file enters the target phone’s Inbox attached

elopment. They need to be wiser in analyzing the market trends and the regulatory requirements.

Companies that provide selfless information through particip

to a message. When the message is opened, it activates the SIS file and installs the following:

!:systemappsCommWarriorcommwarrior.exe !:systemappsCommWarriorcommrec.md

tion in industry events and feedback to regulatory authorities would be able to face the challenges and will be successful in developing combination products

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