Protect Your Cell Phones from Viruses with ESET Mobile Antivirus

If you think that viruses restrict themselves to infecting your computers, you are wrong. Viruses and malwares can and do spread to anything you hook up to your computer such as flash drives, memory cards, mp4 players, and even cellphones.

Yes, cellphones.

If you are a smartphone user, then at moment in time you might have encountered your phone behaving strangely. For instance you enter your pictures folder on your cellphone, and all the pictures have been replaced by one of your pictures, or a picture that was not initially in your phones. Or whenever you plug in your phone to your computer, the auto-run choices list an option to open a program called ‘runonce.exe’. Those types of malfunctions are caused by viruses and malware which infiltrate your cellphones.

Once a virus does enter your cellphone, not many options remain but to enter your phone options and format your phone and the memory card you are using with it. Data backup to a desktop is risky because the virus can then travel from your phone to the computer. Thus a virus infection on your phone can potentially mean complete loss of all your saved media (videos and pictures) on your phone.

Now if only there was a free antivirus for smartphones…

There is one now and it is called ESET Mobile Antivirus.

This antivirus can protect your smartphone from a number of threats. Apart from being able to search for viruses and quarantining them, the ESET Mobile Antivirus is able to protect the phone with heuristics which can block and clean the latest emerging malwares.

The setup file is only is around 400 KB large and can be instantly downloaded. ESET is in its beta stage right now and testers of the beta release can send valuable feedback to ESET’s developers.

Key features include

• Activation – performed online via graphic user interface
• Archive Scaning – variable in-depth scanning of archives
• Heuristics – pioneering proactive protection for mobile platforms
• Logs and Statistics – provides information about scanning tasks and virus signature database status as well as a report on scanning history
• On-Access Scanning – scans newly-created and opened files; scanning of files received via Bluetooth, IR and Wi-Fi
• On-Demand Scanning – scans running processes and storage (including specific subfolders); standardized logs
• Quarantine – infected objects can be deleted or moved to a quarantine folder; once in quarantine, objects can be deleted or restored
• Updates – updates can be performed automatically on a daily (default), weekly or monthly schedule, or performed manaually by the user on an on-demand basis
• User Interface – friendly, easy-to-use user interface

All you smartphone users, get your hands on ESET Mobile Antivirus right away and let the developers know how this necessary tool can be further developed.

Note that ESET Mobile Antivirus for Symbian OS runs on the following platforms:

• Symbian S60 3rd Edition, Feature Pack 1 or 2
• Symbian S60 5th Edition

Installation Guide can be found HERE.

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