Nokia 7610 is indeed one of those few mobile phone models (running the Symbian S60 R2 operating system) for which mobile phone viruses exist in-the-wild. Most likely, it is a CommWarrior variant, since this is probably the most widespread virus of this kind.
As for how it got there - probably via Bluetooth or via MMS; not via the Internet, as somebody suggested.
- The best way to remove the virus is by using an anti-virus program for your mobile phone. Try F-Secure's - it's pretty good. It's not free but it has a trial period which should be enough to clean your phone.
- Re-formatting the phone is also an option, but I wouldn't recommend it. First of all, you'll lose all the data and custom applications that you have loaded into the phone.
- Second, depending on the virus, the latter might have also infected the MMC card - from where it will immediately re-infect the phone during the boot up after the formatting. So - better use an anti-virus program instead.
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