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RE: Tatsh

Most newer smartphones aren’t using PIE (pocket internet explorer) as the default, but rather they are using opera. PIE is still there but not set to default. I highly doubt anyone has anything to worry about when it comes to cell phone viruses. Maybe in a year or 2.

Anti viral software has been available for your WM device for sometime now, so this is nothing new. It was bloatware then and is bloatware now.

GSM phones should just brick like TDMA/CDMA phones if reported stolen, then no one will bother to steal them.

Windows is just the target for attacks because they have had the same file formats since mid 90′s and the code can execute on even the most up to date systems. Viruses written ten years ago can still fack a computer if it is not protected.

tatsh: windows systems are hit the hardest because of numbers, not security plain and simple. people are not going to setup attacks for something that carries less than 10% of the market out there. it is a numbers game in the end. if 95% of the world was running NeXT today you would be saying the exact same thing about it.

anyway nothing is 100% secure unless it is 100% destroyed

antivirus programs such as F secure have been around for years on symbian operating systems. this is nothing new.
plus most computer antivurus programs can pick up and more importantly remove viruses on mobiles. just link it up by USB and scan as normal.

oh and @android, the security flaw exposed at blackhat affected android, WinMo and iphone.

Foretime hackers hacked the biggest torrent portal Linkomanija.net Lithuania believed that the theft was 40.000 login with pasvordais

Broken linkomanija the user database can be downloaded from these links http://hotfile.com/dl/9585610/39ecb4a/linkomanija_nulauzta.rar.html all passwords on the list is uzkuoduoti so if kasnors atkuoduos all the information from this list may make use of your registration. seme, see if its better Nika Change your password.

@googfan#1: I’d buy it. If i had an iphone.
@berlink: What in the name of all that is glorious and holy are you saying? Seriously, are you brain damaged? and wtf happened to moderated comments?
@googfan#2: idk. i guess the went from one or two posts a weekend to none.

LOL WHORE

i meant “whole” of course :P

Anti Virus has existed for smartphones for years. It is nothing new and untill there are a large number of viri for smartphones there will still be no need for them. many mobile software sites have hundreds of them most of which have been in existance for over a year. There is no way for a Virus to survive a hard reset, at least currently, and since its easy to backup your stuff and do a hard reset I see no reason for this kind of software to exist. Programs like this are waist of any smartphones already limited space and this post on hackaday was a waist of my bandwidth.

did hackaday miss day? :O

@Hiroe
hackaday is a tec website … it is no longer strictly hacks … im glad this showed up for my BB storm

RE:Tatsh

I have heard from lot’s of people that apple products are not easily targeted from viruses they have very good security system , i have heard from some people that microsoft has partnership with antivirus software companies.

@ james burns
apple is more secure simpally becasue to add an app you need to go threw the app store and they find viruses … and Microsoft is trying there hardiest to stop viruses there is no conspiracy … blackberry devices are prone to them becasue of there simple java PL and of all it can do … as long as ur not an idiot you are safe from cellular viruses

@biozz
statistical analysis reveals that most people are in fact idiots.

Here is the problem. The WM6 platform (WM6.5 the latest) is the best platform out there for usability and business. I can do a full hard push sync with the office’s exchange server without paying for the crackberry taxes and additional fees.

Is it perfect? not a chance. but it’s better for business use than the iphone and any of the symbian phones I have

What do people here think about Microsoft’s new antivirus offering? I found a good resource with the 2009 antivirus rankings here, but it doesn’t include Microsoft’s offering.

Chris