The anti-virus vendor’s McAfee VirusScan Mobile ($29.99) software will be available for download through the carrier’s MediaNet Web portal. Victor Kounetsov, VP of McAfee Mobile, told PDAStreet the development of McAfee VirusScan Mobile was part of a strategy that the company outlined 2.5 years ago with the creation of the dedicated mobile-device security unit that he now runs. The aim of the division is to attack mobile malware by dealing directly with operators, device manufacturers, enterprises, and – potentially in the future – with consumers. Kounestsov said to PDAStreet, “They (Cingular) will make our technology available to their subscribers in all different segments: individuals, consumers, businesses, enterprises – on devices where this technology can be installed in an after market fashion.” So, in the current iteration, customers must install and purchase the software themselves, through Cingular’s MediaNet Web portal, as mentioned in the opening paragraph.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Kounestsov said, “The operator recognizes the importance of this technology, and works with us to provide it.<\/p>\n
With McAfee VirusScan Mobile, they’ve taken it to other platforms and shipped it as an aftermarket solution; maintaining the same core technology to provide security functionality to the network operator and the enterprise. And while you can conceptually compare it to anti-virus or anti-spyware and all sorts of anti-malware for the desktop, the intent is to give operator or enterprise – not necessarily the end user – full control of what’s happening on the device.<\/p>\n
AVERT Labs predicted a huge increase in mobile threats; up to about 726 from 226 from 2005. McAfee predicted that the damage caused by new mobile threats is likely to be more extensive than those caused by today’s PC threats because of the large volume of smartphones and the small percentage that are protected by mobile security. For example, in 2004, the ‘I Love You’ virus penetrated tens of millions of PCs in just a couple of hours despite the fact that half of all PCs had Internet security software installed.<\/p>\n
By comparison, a mobile threat targeting several operating systems could infect up to 200 million connected smartphones simultaneously because the majority of these devices don’t include anti-virus protection.<\/p>\n
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