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Unlock.A

Name : Unlock.A
Category:Riskware
Type:Exploit
Platform:SymbOS

Summary

Unlock.A is a pseudonym for a program designed to remove the Phone Lock protection of some Symbian OS phones.

The program was successfully tested on a Nokia 6680. Unlock.A should work on most Symbian based mobile phones.

Additional Details

This utility software bypasses the phone locking mechanism by using a Symbian OS bootstrap component feature. Unlock.A is copied to a MMC card in a system folder. When the MMC card containing this software is inserted into a phone with the phone lock enabled, this software overwrites the phone lock information disabling the phone lock and in the process also loses some localization information.

The software is not malicious by itself. Its purpose is dependent on the intention of its user.

This utility software functions on mobile phones with Symbian OS based on EKA1.

Detection

F-Secure Mobile Anti-Virus for Symbian detects this malware starting from the update build number 109.

Disinfection

Allow F-Secure Anti-Virus to disinfect the relevant files.

For more general information on disinfection, please see Removal Instructions.