{"id":1449,"date":"2005-09-02T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2005-09-02T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.cybersecurityinstitute.com\/blog\/index.php\/2005\/09\/02\/mobiles-get-anti-virus-protection\/"},"modified":"2021-12-30T11:39:24","modified_gmt":"2021-12-30T11:39:24","slug":"mobiles-get-anti-virus-protection","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cybersecurityinstitute.com\/blog\/index.php\/2005\/09\/02\/mobiles-get-anti-virus-protection\/","title":{"rendered":"Mobiles get Anti-Virus Protection"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In response to the growing number of virus incidents that infect handsets, the Finnish security firm F-Secure has launched security program for mobile devices.  Even though a small number of viruses were reported, many security experts believe that mobile viruses will eventually become as big a nuisance as Windows viruses.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Although most mobile operators have software in their networks to stop virus propagating, the protection must be focused on the end client to avoid propagation between two mobile devices.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Handset to handset is a good way to deliver a virus,&#8221; said Richard Hales, UK manager for F-Secure.  <\/p>\n<p>For now, viruses for mobile devices can spread via Bluetooth or via multimedia messaging and most of them target the Symbian operating system which is by default installed on smart-phones.<\/p>\n<p>http:\/\/www.ebcvg.com\/articles.php?id=868<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1449","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-product"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cybersecurityinstitute.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1449","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cybersecurityinstitute.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cybersecurityinstitute.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cybersecurityinstitute.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cybersecurityinstitute.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1449"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.cybersecurityinstitute.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1449\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3936,"href":"https:\/\/www.cybersecurityinstitute.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1449\/revisions\/3936"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cybersecurityinstitute.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1449"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cybersecurityinstitute.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1449"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cybersecurityinstitute.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1449"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}