Cellphone malware spreading through bluetooth

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This is why my phone started receiving all those weird .sis files...
Last night, in trying to connnect my phone to my Mac, I had switched on thhe bluetooth in my phone. (moron that I am, I didnt realize that my mac is not bluetooth enabled !)

I forgot to switch off the bluetooth on my phone.

The article states :

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F-Secure said Lasco.A arrives to the phone's messaging inbox as a velasco.sis file that contains the worm. When a user installs the velasco.sis file, the worm activates and starts looking for new devices to infect over the Bluetooth protocol.

"When Lasco.A worm finds another Bluetooth device it will start sending infected SIS files to it, as long as the target phone is in range. Like Cabir.H, Lasco.A is capable of finding a new target, after the first one has gone out of range," the alert said.

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Another clue would have been that this happpened only when I was travelling in the bus...obviously there was a bluetooth device around that would have been infected with this virus!

Switching off the bluetooth on my phone now..lets keep our fingers crossed...