N80 antivirus???????

Er, why? :con? It's not needed.

chrsfrwll wrote:Er, why? :con? It's not needed.

I once picked up a virus on my sendo X so they are out there..

OK, I stand corrected but I thought the Symbian OS made our phones virtually bullet proof. Well, virus proof anyway. Guess it comes down to "virtually". Still don't think I'd bother with keeping an A-V running on my phone.

chrsfrwll wrote:OK, I stand corrected but I thought the Symbian OS made our phones virtually bullet proof. Well, virus proof anyway. Guess it comes down to "virtually". Still don't think I'd bother with keeping an A-V running on my phone.

Symbian OS is now the most common smartphone OS in the world, which makes it an ideal target for virus writers (e.g. having Symbian on your phone is like running windows at home).

So I would say that by having a phone with Symbian on it you are MOST at risk.

Having said that, it's early days and mobile phone viruses are few and far between, but this will only be the case for so long...

chrsfrwll wrote:OK, I stand corrected but I thought the Symbian OS made our phones virtually bullet proof. Well, virus proof anyway. Guess it comes down to "virtually". Still don't think I'd bother with keeping an A-V running on my phone.

My sendo was a symbian phone, but if you buy and download legit content and apps you shouldn't have any problems, it when you download from p2p that you start to be at greater risk,

I am not saying thats how my phone got infected but ....... 😉

Cash wrote:My sendo was a symbian phone, but if you buy and download legit content and apps you shouldn't have any problems, it when you download from p2p that you start to be at greater risk,

I am not saying thats how my phone got infected but ....... 😉

Actually, it's BLUETOOTH that's most likely to catch you a virus on a smartphone.

Imagine you're in the pub slightly p***sed and a B T message comes in saying "Accept BT message from SuzieBigT*Ts?". You reply Y (twice) and a virus installs itself in your phone. Now the contents of your phonebook and gallary are sent by BT automatically to every other BT device in the pub.... and maybe your handset emails and MMS's everyone in your phonebook as well... COSTLY and EMBARRASING.

I am hoping Symantec release a 6 month trial for Symbian 3rd Edition soon!

Dez

dez_borders wrote:Actually, it's BLUETOOTH that's most likely to catch you a virus on a smartphone.

Imagine you're in the pub slightly p***sed and a B T message comes in saying "Accept BT message from SuzieBigT*Ts?". You reply Y (twice) and a virus installs itself in your phone. Now the contents of your phonebook and gallary are sent by BT automatically to every other BT device in the pub.... and maybe your handset emails and MMS's everyone in your phonebook as well... COSTLY and EMBARRASING.

I am hoping Symantec release a 6 month trial for Symbian 3rd Edition soon!

Dez

Haha, yes that is a possible senario 😉

There are no known viruses or malware for Symbian OS 9 based devices (like the N80).

All existing mobile "viruses" for Symbian devices are for older versions and won't run at all on Symbian 9 devices.

You can be safe if you also only install apps from reputable sources (like this site), and do not install and execute any unsolicited apps sent to you (even if sent by friends who might not know their phone is sending apps to others), or from pirated (cracked) software (= warez) sites.

A couple of articles I found about viruses

http://3lib.ukonline.co.uk/viruses.htm

http://www.symbian-freak.com/forum/viewtopic.php?p=1489

N/A wrote:There are no known viruses or malware for Symbian OS 9 based devices (like the N80).

You missed out 2 vital words on the end of your statement...... SO FAR!

I imagine there will be virus and trojans which can affect the N80 soon enough.

However, all your other points are valid, thanks for the information & advice. 😉

Dez

Hi,

F-Secure currently have a Smartphone version that protects the mobiles. I've tested trial version on the Nokia N80 and it works fine.

http://www.f-secure.com/download-purchase/

Nokia (F-Secure article) - http://www.nokia.co.uk/nokia/0,,88042,00.html

I've attached the trial version.

F-Secure Mobile Anti-Virus (File)

dez_borders wrote:Actually, it's BLUETOOTH that's most likely to catch you a virus on a smartphone.

Imagine you're in the pub slightly p***sed and a B T message comes in saying "Accept BT message from SuzieBigT*Ts?". You reply Y (twice) and a virus installs itself in your phone. Now the contents of your phonebook and gallary are sent by BT automatically to every other BT device in the pub.... and maybe your handset emails and MMS's everyone in your phonebook as well... COSTLY and EMBARRASING
Dez

Not really. For this to be possible, you'd first need to have bluetooth switched on in discoverable mode. Not always the case.

Then you'd need to accept receiving an unknown file via bluetooth from an unknown person. Even pissed, that'd be a pretty stupid thing to do.

Anyway, even if you do, you would then need to accept the message that says "do you want to install the xxx application?".

If you do, you'd then need to validate the security warning since the application is going to be self-signed.

If you do you'll then possibly need to accept another security warning about the capabilities.

After having validated all that, the application will be installed and i'd suggest that you bring the phone back to where you bought it and ask them to give you a "dumb" phone instead.

But that's not over. When the application starts, it still won't be able to send emails, MMS and bluetooth messages to everyone as you said. Since it's gonna be a self-signed application, you will need to explicitely allow it to do each and every of these actions.

If you do that, then i'm sorry but no amount of anti-virus is going to protect you. Anti-viruses can protect you against viruses but they can't do anything against malwares that politely ask you if you want to let them use your phone's internet and bluetooth connection.

elp wrote:Not really. For this to be possible, you'd first need to have bluetooth switched on in discoverable mode. Not always the case.

Then you'd need to accept receiving an unknown file via bluetooth from an unknown person. Even pissed, that'd be a pretty stupid thing to do.

Anyway, even if you do, you would then need to accept the message that says "do you want to install the xxx application?".

If you do, you'd then need to validate the security warning since the application is going to be self-signed.

If you do you'll then possibly need to accept another security warning about the capabilities.

After having validated all that, the application will be installed and i'd suggest that you bring the phone back to where you bought it and ask them to give you a "dumb" phone instead.

But that's not over. When the application starts, it still won't be able to send emails, MMS and bluetooth messages to everyone as you said. Since it's gonna be a self-signed application, you will need to explicitely allow it to do each and every of these actions.

If you do that, then i'm sorry but no amount of anti-virus is going to protect you. Anti-viruses can protect you against viruses but they can't do anything against malwares that politely ask you if you want to let them use your phone's internet and bluetooth connection.