Symantec Working on Mobile Security Software
Symantec Working on Mobile Security Software
Posted 03/01/2010 at 5:22am
| by Paul Lilly
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Mobile security has been getting a lot of attention lately, so much in fact that Symantec has come out and said it is working on new software that will keep mobile phones safe from viruses and other forms of malware, news and rumor site Fudzilla reports.
"Symantec tells us it is working with carriers, handset manufacturers, and software vendors to ensure data held in smartphones and the systems they access are not at the mercy of rogue phone apps," Fudzilla says.
While this would be new ground for Symantec, the security firm is said to be using the same algorithm employed by its Norton 360 packages to build a live database of trusted mobile apps. This will be stored in the cloud and open to customization by individual enterprises.
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Caboose
March 01, 2010 at 10:12am
This is bad... This is very bad! </Bob - ReBOOT>
First Symantec infects our computers, now this! Console's won't be too far off. Maybe Symantec should focus more on making a product that works properly, doesn't eat all your system resources, cause your PC to shit itself with an update and is the leading cause of baldness and destroyed livers among IT workers!
-= I don't want to be dead, I want to be alive! Or... a cowboy! =-
winmaster
March 01, 2010 at 7:52am
Now phones need anti-virus too. (Thinks about what AVG moble edition free would be like...)
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