According to statistics by China's National Computer network Emergency Response Technical Team, the number of mobile phone virus samples reached nearly 163,000, which was 25 times higher than in 2011.
Media reports say one virus attacked about 1.17 million mobile phones last year. The virus might creep into the server and send junk messages with ads to your contacts.
Department Director of China's National Computer Network Emergency Response Technical Team Zhou Yonglin says smartphones running the Android system were the biggest victims.
"More than 80 percent of the viruses target the Android system. When we analyzed the nature of the malicious application, we found three categories of them, including malicious fee deduction apps, rogue apps and phone bill consumption apps. For the rogue a
