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Cellular Phone Forum / Country Specific / UK Group / October 2005*1)
Just received a message with the sender as something like *1). It then automatically started a GPRS download, tough I thought I'd disabled anything from automatically being downloaded, obviously not. Can't see what has been downloaded, or who was the real sender, however I have been charged 1 pence 'Enhanced WAP' on my Virgin account, not a huge amount I know, but that's not the point. Anyone have any ideas where this would come from and what it would be?  SignatureFor South East Brum: http://www.south-east-birmingham.tk For half (£25) of my bonus (£50) when referred to Telewest or £5 when referred to easyMobile contact me via above site. >Just received a message with the sender as something like *1). > [quoted text clipped - 6 lines] > >Anyone have any ideas where this would come from and what it would be? I haven't got a clue where it came from, but I do know that three members of my family all received picture messages with the title "Try this!". No number was available and the sender was listed as "*". Very strange! > I haven't got a clue where it came from, but I do know that three > members of my family all received picture messages with the title "Try > this!". No number was available and the sender was listed as "*". I got this too but it was a wap push message not a picture message. I just deleted it, rather than follow the link. Was anyone curious enough to follow it? don't you mean, stupid enough to follow it? Who follows a message from someone they don't know? Don't they read the phone manual which says "DO NOT OPEN MESSAGES FROM UNTRUSTWORTHY SOURCES". Then these exact same people take their phones back to the shop and ask for a new one, duh!!! >> I haven't got a clue where it came from, but I do know that three >> members of my family all received picture messages with the title "Try [quoted text clipped - 4 lines] > > Was anyone curious enough to follow it? Thus spaketh Joe: > don't you mean, stupid enough to follow it? Who follows a message from > someone they don't know? Don't they read the phone manual which says [quoted text clipped - 11 lines] >> >> Was anyone curious enough to follow it? If I don't know who the message is from, I just delete it. However this one automatically started a GPRS download, even though I was sure auto everything was switched off, and now having checked everything auto I could change was switched off, yet it still managed to download a 7kb file without me allowing. >>>I got this too but it was a wap push message not a picture message. >>>I just deleted it, rather than follow the link. [quoted text clipped - 5 lines] > was switched off, and now having checked everything auto I could change was > switched off, yet it still managed to download a 7kb file without me allowing. I suspect that this is down to the whatever-it-was masquerading as a picture message. As picture messaging is normally used for pictures, which should be harmless, there is no good reason (in the phone designer's minds, anyway) not to download one. In fact on my T610 Virgin have configured picture messaging to use a separate data account from WAP, so disabling WAP won't actually disable picture message downloads. Perhaps the workaround is to delete the picture messaging config, if you don't use picture messaging that is? SignatureJon Hall | Email: jmah at os2world.net Southampton, UK | or: jmah98 at yahoo.com |(if jmah at os2world.net bounces) NB: unsolicited commercial email is NOT welcome. You have been warned. >> If I don't know who the message is from, I just delete it. However this one automatically >> started a GPRS download, even though I was sure auto everything was switched off, and now having [quoted text clipped - 7 lines] > picture message downloads. Perhaps the workaround is to delete the picture messaging config, if > you don't use picture messaging that is? You have to have wap push set to "prompt" or "never". |
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