Gavno: another "pseudo-threat" for Symbian OS smartphones.

A new "threat" for your smartphone is called Gavno and pretends to be a patch file for your phone (patch.sis). If you install it, it will disables a phone by using a a malformed file to crash an internal Symbian process. Gavno only affects Series 60 phones using Symbian OS v7.0s.

Once again, mosts user do not need to fear all these pseudo-worms. Check this excellent page from Steve Litchfield to understand why.

In case you need to reset your phone because you have been playing around with such viruses, here is the solution to repair your phone: How to reset/reformat a phone.