> Datum: Tue, 27 Jul 2010 22:51:24 -0700
> Von: Dennis Peterson <[email protected]>
> An: ClamAV users ML <[email protected]>
> Betreff: Re: [Clamav-users] Mobile devices?

> On 7/26/10 4:27 AM, Moray Henderson wrote:
> > Now that mobile telephones have become advanced (stupid?) enough to
> > require virus protection, can ClamAV be usefully run on a mobile?  Or
> > can anyone recommend free AV software for mobile devices?
> 
> Virus protection is a heavy weight process that does not
> belong on an end point 
> device category such as cell phones. Before your cell phone gets the
> message it 
> should already have been processed for spam, blacklists, and hostile
> payload - 
> in other words, it shall have passed policy based screening.
> 
> I honestly imagine this will be a controversial position,
> but if I own the
> company and those are my cell phones, that's the way it would be.

I am not sure if all telephone companies check your downloads and since
more and more files are downloaded to smartphones I see a use case here.

About "heavy weight process": I am not sure but I guess e.g. a Nokia N900
may run clamav...

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