> 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... -- GMX DSL SOMMER-SPECIAL: Surf & Phone Flat 16.000 für nur 19,99 Euro/mtl.!* http://portal.gmx.net/de/go/dsl _______________________________________________ Help us build a comprehensive ClamAV guide: visit http://wiki.clamav.net http://www.clamav.net/support/ml
