Protect
Privacy Protect – Mobile protection against viruses, trojans, malware and spyware
In the last couple of years the security concerns on mobile phone usage, specifically on smartphones, have become very pronounced. McAfee Labs, one of the leading global anti-virus players, end of December 2010, predicted that also mobile phones will top the list of targets for emerging threats in 2011. A natural step to protect mobile phone users would be to migrate proven virus scanning technology to smartphones, which already today have the computing power of a laptop. Conventional anti-virus software, however, even if it is adapted to mobile phones, principally has a problem with energy consumption and therefore battery time. This is due to the fact, that the scanning processes involved are intrinsically power-hungry. Privacy Protect uses a fundamentally different approach which is as effective in protection but which only uses a negligible amount of battery power. The user or the administrator has to explicitly allow any new application to be installed on the user’s mobile phone. This procedure allows for secure protection against hidden corruption of mobile phones with viruses, trojans, malware or spyware. Mobile banking or applications for police and security organisations for example are prime candidates for Privacy Protect.
