saadku

which one is better McAfee VirusScan PDA Enterprise Version 2 or Norton antivirus 2004



and thanks

Ward

Neither. An AV for the Pocket PC is patently unessesary. Don't waste your CPU time and memory until the threat actually manifests.

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psionandy

Theres no virus threat in the wild (yet), so its not worth the overhead

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Gigi

I agree with Ward and psionandy. Don't forget that even if your device becomes somehow infected, you can always do a hard reset.

psionandy

Originally Posted by Gigi

I agree with Ward and psionandy. Don't forget that even if your device becomes somehow infected, you can always do a hard reset.

But just to add to what i've said.. and i think the others would agree.. make sure you DO have it on your PC. Thats where the real danger is

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saadku

thanks everyone but i keep hearing that viruses are starting to appear for pocket pc's which got me a bit jumpy lol

gstadig

I think it's worth being jumpy...
I haven't installed anything on my new X50v yet, but it would seem to me if you are a user who connects and uses a corporate network that there is risk of the X50v either being infected from another machine or worse the X50v caring infection to the corporate side. I understand that the windows mobile O/S is differant than desktop clients, but just like both can share web pages i think there is an opening or risk. Particularly with a device that has multiple forms of connections such as Wi/Fi BT and IR, if somebody left there stuff on it wouldn't be difficult to have something dropped on it.
For example you hear of peoples phonelist being lifted from there phones..
I agree the risk is lower than the epidemic on the desktop, but just because it doesn't get alot of press doesn't mean it isn't or wont happen.
The solution is easy if you are infected, simply restore from your current back-up and sync. I just see a risk in the potential to seed a network with a worm or virii. That said i haven't gotten anything running on mine yet. Maybe i am just over paranoid?

BillL

Many corporate security policies require you to have protection to use your PPC at work. I have used McAfee successfully for about a year.

ppt

i guess when u start to see advertisements on ppc antivirus progs it's time to grab some good antivirus progs. for now i think ppcs are fairly safe. although i would be very annoyed if i have to hard reset to get rid of some evil virus

windowsrookie

rip-off as far as I know no ones going to make a virus for PDA's why would they? everone is sayin that PDA's are dead so I think virus makers would go for smartphones (like blackberry, Treo, Maybe windows) and they all use diffrent os's than PPC.