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Title: AV-Comparatives for Mobile Security
Post by: Yanto.Chiang on September 08, 2010, 11:43:46 AM

Dear All,

Today Av-Comparatives announced Mobile Security test for the year 2010, but i don't see avast! antivirus involved in there and only ESET, TrendMicro, Kaspersky and F-Secure.

Please see the link : http://www.av-comparatives.org/images/stories/test/mobile/mobile2010_english.pdf

We hope avast! antivirus can consider to develop this tool for mobile security protection in the future and not only limited only for some gadgets....go forth!!

cheers,

Title: Re: AV-Comparatives for Mobile Security
Post by: Lisandro on September 08, 2010, 01:33:42 PM

avast has dropped the PDA development to a very low priority...

Title: Re: AV-Comparatives for Mobile Security
Post by: Yanto.Chiang on September 14, 2010, 10:58:33 AM

Quote from: Tech on September 08, 2010, 01:33:42 PM

avast has dropped the PDA development to a very low priority...

Hi Tech,

Thanks for your respond,

I understand what is the market concerned, but again it back to each company vision.

cheers,

Title: Re: AV-Comparatives for Mobile Security
Post by: GloobyGoob on December 14, 2010, 12:12:05 AM

DVICE.com: Why there hasn't been a major cellphone virus yet (http://dvice.com/archives/2010/11/why-there-hasnt.php)

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"The myriad various architectures and platforms make it difficult for a malware author to target a big number of devices," says Ondrej Vlcek, chief technology officer of Avast. "It's just not worth the hassle to create a virus that will only target a platform with [a small] market share."

David Goldschlag, VP of Mobile for McAfee, agrees. "People chase the money. [Malware] either targets large platforms or very specialized targets. Smartphones kind of live in the middle. They aren't a lot of them relative to PCs, and they're not managing critical infrastructure."