Right after my presentation on mobile viruses in Cairo, one of the local police officers approached me. He wanted to ask about suspicious activity on his Nokia 6600.

I had a look and - get this - his personal phone was infected with Cabir.B! So basically he was walking around the secure conference area with a live virus on his phone - and dozens of people from all over the world were constantly walking around him. Luckily Cabir is capable of spreading to only one phone per reboot.

We surfed to http://mobile.f-secure.com straight from his phone and cleaned the virus off with the free F-Cabir tool. This takes only a minute or so.

So the list of known infections by Cabir currently looks like this:

  1 Philippines
  2 Singapore
  3 UAE
  4 China
  5 India
  6 Finland
  7 Vietnam
  8 Turkey
  9 Russia
 10 UK
 11 Italy
 12 USA
 13 Japan
 14 Hong Kong
 15 France
 16 South Africa
 17 The Netherlands
 18 Egypt