Chinese country-level media CCTV telecasted this news in its mainstream news column "CCTV News" : The latest data shows that, the number of Chinese mainland users who access Internet by mobile phone has exceeded 155 million. When enjoying the convince in surfing Internet with mobile phones, users are also faced with the risk that their mobile phones may be infected with virus. The security services specially aiming at the mobile phone viruses are quietly rising.
Recently, CCTV journalists found in some mobile phone repair shops in Beijing that, except for the customers who ask for mobile phone after-sale service and maintenance, there are some other customers who ask for help since their mobile phones have failed in normal use after accessing Internet or being connected with computer. As introduced by technical staffs, accessing the Internet by mobile phone is equivalent to directly connecting Palm Personal Computer (PPC) with Internet, so that the probability of being infected with network viruses; In addition, if a mobile phone is frequently connected with computer, it may be infected with the mobile phone viruses that are existing in the computer, which can slow down the running speed of mobile phone or lead system crash and white screen. Some viruses can automatically send SMS, dial phone and even delete data and lay waste the SIM card.
Mobile phone viruses have emerged for quite some time. Since the first global mobile phone virus has appeared in Finland in 2004, more than 1000 kinds have developed and spread around the world. In June this year, virus Transimitter.C that broke out in Saudi Region has once caused panic. Later, its multiple variants that occurred one after another have damaged mobile phone users within different ranges, especially Transmitter-like virus that has outbreak in Chinese mainland recently. This virus utilizes China's famous SNS Website as the inducement for its dissemination. All round the world, there are many large-scale SNS Websites over which users can make communication using mobile phones, such as overseas Twitter, Facebook, Myspace and Friendster etc., and these websites are common in very high popularity, various interactional activities, great population of user group and high user loyalty. Upon receiving the virus SMS containing the key words of such SNS Websites, users are often induced without thinking first, so that this virus can result in that ten of thousands of mobile phones are infected in short time. NetQin is the globally first security expert that has captured this virus and succeeded in killing it.
In response to the spread of mobile phone viruses, the global leading mobile phone security service prouder NetQin has released mobile phone security services including mobile phone anti-virus (NetQin Mobile Antivirus), anti-annoyance from Spam message and call(NetQin Comm. Master) and privacy protection(Windows Mobile Professional). Up to June 2009, NetQin has provided mobile phone security services for more than 25 million smart phone users，who are spreading in more than 200 countries and regions all over the world, taking the leading position in the share of global segment market of mobile security and even holding more than 60% of market share in the field of Chinese mobile security
Relevant statistic data revealed that, in Chinese mainland there are have been more than 0.65 billion mobile phone users, and the number of users who access Internet by mobile phones also has exceeded 155 million. At present, a increasing number of domestic users who access Internet by mobile phones have subscribed mobile phone security service at monthly cost of 4～5 Yuan. As introduced by insiders, with the further popularization of smart mobile phone and the increase of users accessing Internet by mobile phone, mobile phone anti-virus and security services will form an integral industry chain ranging from development and application to after-sale service, and the scale of mobile phone security software market will develop at annual rate of 70%.
With the arrival of mobile phone & Internet era, the sharp increase in mobile phone users also gives a tremendous stimulation to such mobile phone viruses and malicious softwares developed with profit motive. The profit-making objectives of malicious software are mainly embodied in the following aspects: consume the tariff of users by means of automatic networking and automatic transmission of malicious short messages for fee reduction; In addition, few malicious softwares have turned to steal the privacy information of users. In particular, the privacy information in the users' mobile phones (short message, address list and picture etc.) will become the main targets of attack by malicious softwares and will be likely transmitted in the modes of short messages and networking, resulting in the disclosure of user's privacy. Driven by these interests, malicious softwares will, with the development of mobile phone sector, evolve to be more secrete and difficult for prevention, causing even serious damages to mobile phones. Once a mobile phone has been attacked by virus, its user will not only suffer from tremendous economic loss and prestige crisis,but even have to deal with the serious consequences resulting from the disclosure of individual privacy.
NetQin sincerely reminds global mobile phone users to pay close attention to mobile phone security problem, in order to avoid unnecessary loss due to mobile phone security shortcomings.
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