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Users of Nokia’s 7610 smart phone and possibly other phones running Symbian’s Series 60 software should be aware of a new Trojan program on the Internet.
We have located several freeware and shareware sites offering a program, called Extended Theme Manager, that contains a Trojan horse,” Mikko Hypp?nen, director of antivirus research at Helsinki-based F-Secure , said Monday in an interview. “The virus writer is going by the name Tee-222.”

The malicious code, called Skulls, deactivates all links to Symbian system applications, such as e-mail and calendar, by replacing their menu icons with images of skulls, according to Hypp?nen. Users of affected phones can only send or receive calls, he said.

Hypp?nen said that the Extended Theme Manager program looked “pretty convincing” as a freeware maintenance tool and that many sites had not bothered to verify it or even try it out. Most monitored sites, he said, have since removed the program.

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