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Nokia has entered a pact with Symantec to help secure its mobile phones from viruses that target certain kinds of handsets.
Under the agreement, announced on Wednesday, Nokia plans to arm its Series 60 smartphones with the Symantec Mobile Security antivirus program. The software is designed to ward off attacks that could compromise the extensive data, such as contact databases, that people store on their smartphones, the companies said. The devices typically have many computer-like features, including email and Web browsing, which have made them vulnerable to attacks.
Mobile phone virus outbreaks are a small but emerging threat, security experts have said. Security specialists F-Secure and Trend Micro, which develop antivirus software for handsets, claim the malicious code is proliferating. Yet research firm Gartner recently predicted that a fast-spreading phone virus or worm is unlikely to appear before 2008.
Nokia series 60 handsets running the Symbian operating system are the target of the CommWarrior Trojan horse, which has been spotted spreading.
Nokia and Symantec said their agreement follows two years of joint work to develop mobile security technology. Earlier this year, software maker Kaspersky Labs released its own mobile antivirus software.
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17 Jul 06 17:39 ReplyI installed the F Secure software fron the Nokia site and later,,,, I think I also activated the installaion of Symantec software on the phone. This cause the phone to hang with the F Secure info on the screen. I have to remove the battery to get the phone off this screen, on switching it back on, the same problem occurs. Please help.