Do We Need Antivirus??

Posted on 16. Oct, 2008 by geek in Tutorials n Tips | 1 comment

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Many people ask that they need an antivirus for their mobile, of course for S60v3 aka OS9 mobiles, and I am tired telling them that they dont need any antivirus for their mobile.

Here I will try to explain why we dont need any anitvirus for our mobile. (copied from http://mobile.antonypranata.com)

As you may know, S60 3rd Edition is based on Symbian OS 9. One of the new features on this new operating system is Platform Security (PlatSec), which is supposed to protect our devices for malicious programs. One aspect of these changes is the platform security enhancements. These represent an evolution of the existing perimeter security model of Symbian OS and help ensure the stability of the platform, providing even greater protection against malicious or badly-implemented programs. If PlatSec is designed to protect us against malicious programs, do we need an anti virus application? Until today, I havent heard a virus that attacks Symbian OS 9 devices yet. If you check virus definition database from Trend Micro web site, there are some viruses for Symbian OS already, but all of them attack pre-Symbian OS 9 devices.

Can virus attack Symbian OS devices? I am not a security expert, but I will give my opinion based on my experience doing Symbian OS 9 development. Since the introduction of PlatSec, all applications that use sensitive features of the device need to be signed.

So just forget about antivirus until a virus comes to break the security.

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One Response to “Do We Need Antivirus??”

  1. darenhoff 6 June 2009 at 9:29 pm #

    It is true for those does not hack there phone to turn OFF PlarSec, to install pirated applications.

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