McAfee to Offer Cingular Wireless Customers Mobile Anti-Virus Security Services

[Jerry Raia]

<div class='os_post_top_link'><a href='http://www.msmobilenews.com/page/1235/' target='_blank'>http://www.msmobilenews.com/page/1235/</a><br /><br /></div><i>"McAfee, Inc. (NYSE: MFE), the leading dedicated security technology company, today announced that it will offer Cingular Wireless customers mobile security solutions for business-oriented devices. McAfee provides comprehensive mobile security solutions that are designed to protect against and prevent mobile threats and vulnerabilities. Its flagship product is McAfee VirusScan Mobile. "While mobile threats have presented themselves largely as proof of concept, we think it's important for carriers to get ahead of the curve, and offer proactive and preventative solutions before a significant attack occurs," commented Todd Gebhart, senior vice president of Worldwide Consumer and Mobile Sales at McAfee, Inc."</i><br /><br />What we really need is a good backup solution for our phones, not a cure for which there is no disease yet. I think I'll save my money and wait for the first virus to hit. I've been waiting a few years now. The AV people keep trying to sell us stuff we don't need. I mean what virus signatures are there to download yet?

[Mike Temporale]

You know, the more I live without a backup, the less need I see for it. I haven't had too many issues. So it may take a little time to rebuild. Chances are a fresh start would do you good anyway. Or so I would like to think. ;)

Anyway, I can understand everyone working to get things in place for when a virus does hit. They're just trying to make sure they are the first AV you see when the need happens to show it's face. It's my guess that we've still got some time before this is of any real concern. But that's just my thoughts. I could be wrong.