Do I need Virus Protection on my S60v3 handset?
Posted on March 30th, 2008 | by decoder |The answer is a resounding No!
To quote a fantastic article Myths: Hacking & Viruses On S60 by Vaibhav Sharma over at The Symbian Blog
“I am frankly sick and tired of explaining to people that you do not need an anti virus solution for your S60 third edition phone (That includes every S60 phone released since more than a year ago). You absolutely do not. Even for the older S60 phones that run second edition there are only a handful of so called ‘viruses’ which you can easily keep out if you keep your eyes open. You do not even need to keep the bluetooth switched off, just don’t install applications which you not know to be trustworthy.
The second thing I’ve heard a lot of is that if you use Internet on your mobile you need an anti virus and a firewall. Completely baseless again. The viruses that affect your PC are redundant on the phone. If fact if at all I need to browse a website I know to spread malware, I use the wonderful S60 browser to look it up. All these AV solutions do is add bloat, burden the processor, occupy precious RAM and drain battery.”
I think that pretty much sums it up. Mobile handset anti virus & firewalls are unnessacary and will actually do more harm to your mobile handset experiance than an actual virus will.
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