McAfee Mobile Virus Protection

On August 25th a small number of Cingular subscribers(including some Pre-Merger subscribers) received text messages alerting them of a new service provided by McAfee.  Apparently, some of these subscribers had been infected by the Commwarrior virus.  As you know, the Commwarrior virus can be spread via Bluetooth and/or MMS ad only affects devices running the Symbian OS. 

Cingular began notifying customers via sms and in an effort to minimize the spread of this infection, have teamed up with McAfee to provide free virus scanning and removal software.  Cingular customers may download the software from here.

Now before you go cursing your service provider for not offering a service such as this, please note that McAfee mobile is in beta stage and their virus protection software is in fact available for the rest of us.  The software is available for the following devices:

• Nokia 3230
• Nokia 3650
• Nokia 3660
• Nokia 6260
• Nokia 6600
• Nokia 6620
• Nokia 6630
• Nokia 6670
• Nokia 6680
• Nokia 6681
• Nokia 7610
• Nokia 7650
• Nokia N-Gage
• Panasonic x700
• Siemens SX1
• Windows CE PPC
• Windows CE Smartphone

McAfee Beta Virus Protection Software can be found here.

NOTE:  I was recently reminded of the unimportance of Virus Protection Software, and I totally have to agree with the well-put article written by Steve Litchfield regarding this issue.  People with Smartphones, should in fact be "smart".  In my honest opinion, having the software on your phone is nothing but a memory hogger.  There are sensible ways to protect yourself and as Steve mentioned, several steps that need accepting before a virus actually gets onto your phone. 

Although we all know that you cannot change consumers, there is stuff out there such as this software and others.  While I personally don't agree in having it, I still chose to make it known so that others can take advantage of it should they chose to do so.

I strongly suggest that if you are in fact really serious about protecting your phone, to please read Steve's article.

Comments

[Ms.Hozouri]

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[Anwar]

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[Pawar]

I am having 6670 Nokia mobile. which is infected by virus commwarrior.Please send me antivirus

[fai]

where i can download latest virus definition for mcafee virus scan mobile??? i need that. for information my virus definition is 1.1.3 and build engine 1.1.1.224.7.6 if u had latest virus definition please sent me to my email

[airwind bargayo]

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