[ale] OT: Cellphone wierdness

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Jim - 
What this sounds like to me is that you had a voice mail message waiting indicator come in as a text message.  The "MWI" is nothing more than a system generated text message that rides over the SMS network to tell your phone to cut an icon on.  The 5 digit "from" address is what's key to determining origin.  The 5-digit number is what's called a short code and is a translation for different things riding on an SS7 network.  All carriers use short codes.

If you're getting a "fast busy" when trying to answer this is either incorrect SS7 routing or cell site issues and will have nothing to do with a virus.

Izzie


On Wed, May 10, 2006 at 02:47:47PM -0400, Jim Popovitch wrote:
> 
> Has anyone had/seen/heard any cellphone wierdness going on in the past 
> few days.  I have had incoming calls (which lead to a busy tone, or dead 
> air when answered) and blank text msgs, about 3 or 4 a day.  I've seen 
> this on my work phone (AT&T Wireless) as well as a personal Cingular 
> phone.  Always from different phone numbers, txt msgs are from 5 digit 
> numbers.  A friend who lives out of state has also seen this on a 
> Cingular phone.  Cellphone virus trying to propagate?
> 
> -Jim P.
> 
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