McAfee Releases Antivirus App for Palm
McAfee has released a handheld antivirus app, VirusScan for Handheld. It works by scanning your Palm every time it gets hotsynced. Most of the app resides on your PC, only a 3k app is on your Palm.
McAfee describes the need for the software like this: "Each time you sync with a PC, receive email wirelessly, or accept an infrared transfer, you risk introducing a virus into your system. That's because PC anti-virus applications don't defend against viruses that come through a handheld sync operation. "
This isn't an application you buy; it is a service you lease. It costs $59.95 per year.
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RE: McAfee VirusScan for Handhelds
virus monger
Tell you what I give me a ten bucks and I wil give you 100% protection from nothing. Buy now and I'll throw in protection from giant pieces of gold poop dropped by flying elephants...
yes someone could send you an email though your palm but any attachment is going to be opened on your pc so duh ! the "excellent" Virus software you have should see it....
Go away and come back with a real product.
Pathetic
Someday there'll be a use for this....
Any 59.95 a year?!?! I don't pay that for my PC anti-virus software, and that is useful.
Kudos to McAfee for taking the lead on this, but they should really be giving it away, or maybe a $10 fee, until they can prove that it works and there's something out there for it to work against. I totally agree that they're just trying to make a quick buck off the paranoid.
RE: Someday there'll be a use for this....
This is nothing more than a self-fulfilling prophecy. By bringing out such a product, they are throwing down the gauntlet to would-be virus writers challenging them to write viruses.
Talk about creating a market where one does not exist! This is absurd!
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