Recently while reading up a article over here ,The following were the summary :
hacking suite dubbed Smurf Suite, it can hack any mobile by sending an encrypted text message
So based on the above sentence ,I can imagine the following :
Attacker sends a sms to victim-->victim either opens/reads sms -->once it opened/received by victim -->exploit will run into victim's phone
The following things i could think over regarding it
I cant stop myself from reading text messages since its common human nature to read whatever sms was received
AFAIK there was no method to stop my mobile from receiving message,it might be transmitted through either mobile networks/websites etc
if websites i could contact my telecommunication and ask them to block over it,but again the attacker can send a exploit sms to me through mobile career
Apart from the above things what were the possible stuff i could do prevent myself from spying,Also note that if it's MMS i can stop it by without using internet on the phone[maybe the last solution i could think off]
Looking forward for some precautionary steps which i could do myself to prevent spying over me