Trend Micro Beta Blocks Mobile Malware

With incidents of mobile malware on the rise, Trend Micro is beta testing Mobile Security 2.0, which it bills as an all-around antivirus and spam detection solution for phones and PDAs. Mobile Security provides real-time antivirus scanning, as well as on-access and on-demand scanning. SMS spam detection is also real-time; other vectors for eliminating spam include blacklists and whitelists. Spam messages are segregated into a designated spam folder and logged.

Mobile Security 2.0 supports versions of the Windows Mobile operating system and Symbian OS. A full list of supported devices and surveys to apply to the beta can be found at the Trend Micro beta Web site. The Mobile Security 2.0 beta program is scheduled to run from the end of May through to July 2005.