Internal Security Forces cybercrime and intellectual property unit warned on Saturday from a virus affecting mobile phones and computers, which has been spreading across the Middle East region and Lebanon lately.

Hackers use the “Metropolitan Police Virus” to obtain the credit card's balance when users enter their personal Cash U code.

Premier-designate Tammam Salam announced on Saturday that he did not make any pledges to any political powers in order to assume his position at the premiership.

He said upon his official appointment as prime minister-designate: “I aim to form a government that seeks to achieve national interests.”

Caretaker Prime Minister Najib Miaqati expressed gratitude to Saudi Arabia for its willingness to nominate him to form the new cabinet, assuring that he will run for the 2013 parliamentary elections, al-Akhbar daily quoted him as saying.

“Saudi Arabia wanted to name me to form the new cabinet, but (ex-PM Saad) Hariri declined,” he told the paper in an interview on Saturday, adding that he will run for the upcoming polls, but is currently waiting for an electoral law to be approved and adopted.

The second day of the binding parliamentary consultation kicked off on Saturday morning with the blocs continuing their support for MP Tammam Salam to head a new government.

LBCI television reported that the MP garnered a total of 124 votes by lawmakers to assume the position of prime minister.

Saudi Arabian Ambassador to Lebanon Ali Awadh Asiri assured that the designation of MP Tammam Salam to form the new cabinet was a strictly Lebanese choice, denying any Saudi role in naming him, As Safir daily quoted the ambassador in an interview on Saturday.

“I have reiterated before that the solution in Lebanon cannot but be inter-Lebanese, and that is what makes it continuous. Lebanon's fate is in the hands of its son,” said Asiri.

MP Tammam Salam stressed that he is open to all political powers in Lebanon during the process to form a new government, reported As Safir newspaper Saturday.

He told the daily: “Reaching an agreement over a new parliamentary electoral law and staging the elections will be my first objectives as prime minister.”

Phalange Party leader Amin Gemayel expressed his satisfaction with the appointment of MP Tammam Salam to head a new government, stressing that it should be a “salvation cabinet that brings together all powers,” reported the daily An Nahar Saturday.

He told the daily: “It's naïve to think that Hizbullah can be shut out of the new cabinet.”

President Michel Suleiman signed on Saturday a decree that postpones the parliamentary elections that were set to be held on June 9 for one week.

According to the state-run National News Agency, Suleiman signed a decree that calls on amending the previous decree for holding polls on June 9, setting elections for Sunday, June 16.

Eighty-six lawmakers nominated Beirut MP Tammam Salam for the premiership on the first day of binding parliamentary consultations at the Baabda Palace, winning key endorsements from across the political spectrum.

The consultations kicked off on Friday with Caretaker Prime Minister Najib Miqati, who stated after meeting with President Michel Suleiman that he nominates Salam for the premiership.

MP Tamman Salam is expected to be named the prime minister of a new government amid reports that his nomination is part of a Saudi Arabian settlement that includes the formation of the cabinet and staging of the parliamentary elections.

LBCI television said Friday that the elections will likely be postponed to September or October at the latest.