While shopping in the Eaton Centre this past Friday, my cellphone received a message via Bluetooth from a phone that must have been nearby. I accepted the message but fortunately did not blithly allow the installer to install something. When I got back to the hotel, I downloaded a virus scanner for my Nokia 6620 and was mildly surprised to find that the payload of the message was, in fact, a virus.

This is the first time I’ve ever encountered a cellphone virus and I can’t think of anyone else I know who has seen one. Naturally, I quarentined the message and did a little research on the virus and determined it was a variant of the CommWarrior virus. (I’ve since removed the infected file from my phone so I’m not sure which variant it was.)