Mobile phone operators — at least in Finland — are beginning to fit security software to subscribers mobile phones, “even though the threat from viruses and other rogue programs is still distant, hoping the mobile market will fend off the scourge of the Internet world”.
“We wanted to be proactive…It is still a clean field and we want to keep it that way,” said Pasi Mehtonen, head of mobile services at Sonera.
It’s true that mobile viruses are very ineffectual at the moment, but it’s also a reasonable concern that they will morph into something nasty in several years. One classic quote from Aaron Davidson, chief executive of New Zealand-based antivirus firm Simworks: “Despite popular belief, most operators move slowly and in my view, the very fact that they are interested in evaluating solutions is a big step forward”.
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