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Old 05-23-2007, 12:25 AM   #1 (permalink)
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Anti-virus for Windows Mobile Treo

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Anybody knows where to get a good and FREE anti-virus software for Treo Windows Mobile? I had F-Secure but it expired..

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Old 05-23-2007, 12:43 PM   #2 (permalink)
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Any reason why you feel the need for one
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Old 05-23-2007, 01:26 PM   #3 (permalink)
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There's very few viruses in the wild for our devices.

Some 'test viruses' have been created by virus companies to 'illustrate' to end-users and the market as whole that it's possible to create viruses for both the WM and PalmOS platforms.

There are virus solutions available from both Symantec and McAfee but both those companies sadly now have a reputation for bloated software which for the most part spends most it's time eating ram and slowing your system down.

No-one seems to have a free solution - does anyone else know of one?

It's worth keeping an eye on AVG Anti-Virus and Internet Security - Welcome as their AVG consistently wins awards and (from my perspecitive at least) consumes the least system resources in the desktop environment and hopefully this mentality will extend to any mobile solutions they develop/acquire.

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Old 05-23-2007, 01:34 PM   #4 (permalink)
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Avast! is available for both PalmOS and Windows Mobile Treos but again it's not free.

avast! 4 PDA Edition - antivirus for WM5/WinCE/Palm
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Eventhough many software titles are free, some we will just have to pay for.
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Any reason why you feel the need for one
The truth is I dont really need one right now but I just think that it will be good to have one when an unfortunate time comes
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Understood. Always nice to have back up.

Another way for someone to implement it would be to scan the Treo synch backup. That way your wouldn't have an AV app soaking up memory and battery power on your Treo, if you did get a virus you'd just hard reset and re-synch.

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Another good one for the pc in general is AVIRA. . .best one I have ever used and I used to use AVG. . .really slick.
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welcome to treonauts etrain! Glad to have you and thanks for the post about another resource.
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Old 11-01-2007, 09:44 AM   #10 (permalink)
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