N81 "possessed"

All,
I'm trying to solve a weird problem that started to happen with my 3 months old N81 phone.
Last Thursday out of the blue, my # keys and navigator on my N81 stopped responding. I left the phone on and then my screen started act on "invisible" key strokes randomly like the phone is "possessed". Turning on and off the phone and removing the battery multiple times did not help. After several hours it just stopped acting weird, it was working fine. So, then I turned BT off. Phone was working fine until Sunday, when it did it again briefly. At that time I just recharged the phone and it was back OK. Now this morning it happend again when I was trying to make a call. I was able turn to phone off, but I can't log in, because I can't enter my pin# since the keys do not work.
Do I have a virus in my phone or is something else going on with it? Any one any ideas or advise??
Thanks for all your help, Jari
Austin, TX
"...Just an other Finn & Nokia user a far away from home..."
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Ummm, but how about this statement?
I basically agree that Symbian 9.x is extremely secure. However I think it is dangerous to make statements like "... And there's not a single instance of a virus. Not one. because the OS makes such existence impossible." There is no such thing as impossible and you should never say never.
I can think of several methods malware could be introduced on OS 9.x based platform. Although all of them are quite unlikely, but if there was an actual virus outbreak I think the threat might be a bit more serious than outlined in this article. Here's why:
1) Your average user does not pay attention to various warnings shown by the operating system. What is worse, all the numerous warning and information dialogs Symbian requires even legitimate applications show, have got people used to pressing "yes". (Windows Vista is nearly as bad in this extent.)
2) Sure, even if the device is infected, "a working device is only a hard reset or card format away". Only?!? For many of us, having your device hard reset is not simply a minor inconvenience. Of course you can disinfect a compromised PC too by format and reinstall, but what about all the data that gets lost in the process?
3) If the malware takes advantage of a vulnerability in the OS, the only way to solve the problem for real is to do a firmware upgrade. Even though the vendors have set up sites where end users may update the firmware by themselves, how many of them actually does that? There are a LOT of people out there who don't even know they are using a Symbian based mobile phone, let alone that there would be a site to do firmware upgrades.
Feel free to hit the KUDOS button if you think I deserved it.........

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