Anti-virus for older phones goes free — Series 60 — All About Symbian Forum Archive

slitchfield 19 Jan 2009, 09:49

You all know my stance on Symbian OS malware being virtually impossible and a non-story. The same doesn't quite apply to older versions of Symbian OS and S60, i.e. for phones running variants of S60 2nd Edition, up until the N70 and N90. Malware is still very rare and impossible to catch if you don't manually accept it, but it's worth noting that if you know any paranoid S60 2nd Edition owners, you might like to point them towards Exovirusstop, which has given up the fight to sell something that's not really needed and has made its 'Antivirus' software free.

Read on in the full article.

puterman 20 Jan 2009, 10:17

What about the SMS attack that's been in the news recently? The exploited vulnerability also exists on S60 3rd ed devices.

slitchfield 21 Jan 2009, 17:37

Only theoretically. The level of tech knowledge needed to articifially create the necessary payload SMS, the uncertain no. of networks that will actually let such messages through, the cost of sending the messages and the limited numbers of vulnerable handsets, all make for a very unlikely disaster scenario. Nothing to see, move on, etc.