Monday, December 29, 2003
Stop and Go from Airscanner Corp
Posted by Andy Sjostrom in "SOFTWARE" @ 02:09 AM
Airscanner Corporation recently announced that they will discontinue their Pocket PC based "Mobile Sniffer". The official reason for the discontinuation is lack of user demand. Instead, Airscanner now turns to encryption and antivirus software according to the article Airscanner Announces Mobile Encrypter and Discontinuation of Mobile Sniffer:
"Dallas based Airscanner Corporation, announced the upcoming release of Airscanner Mobile Encrypter beta. The Airscanner Mobile Encrypter is an application that secures the user's data residing on the personal data assistant and provides the facility to lock the device in order to disallow its use by other users. It uses optional, popular encryption and decryption algorithms such as 40-bit RC2, 40-bit RC4 and 56-bit DES in conjunction with Microsoft's Enhanced CryptoAPI that supports 128-bit AES encryption/decryption algorithms. The encryption/decryption will be done at the file and folder levels; each file can be encrypted/decrypted by its own key."
Features of "Airscanner™ Mobile AntiVirus Pro for Pocket PC" include:
"• Quarantine or eradicate embedded viruses and malware.
• Fast, optimized scanning speed based on patent pending technology.
• Automatic, online updates of virus signatures and scanning engine.
• Support for PocketPC 2003/Windows Mobile 2003.
• Easy online updates.
• Intercept memory resident viruses with an advanced process discovery tool.
• Debug Trojan hacks with an easy-to-use registry viewer.
• Uncover denial of service attacks with a rapid system analyzer.
• Enter your own custom virus signatures (for experts).
• Perform fast, recursive, and flexibly multithreaded filesystem scanning.
• Real-time virus scanning by default.
• Additional "Slow" background scanning option.
• A refined virus scanning engine that is 15% faster.
• Online update history logging.
• Real-time file input/output (I/O) event monitor notifies you when any files on your PDA are changed, created, or deleted...including full logging."
I use encryption software myself on my Pocket PC. I have also installed and tested Pocket PC based antivirus software, but due to lack of viruses (so far) I must admit that I uninstalled it. What do think? Will Pocket PC based antivirus software become a bestseller?
"Dallas based Airscanner Corporation, announced the upcoming release of Airscanner Mobile Encrypter beta. The Airscanner Mobile Encrypter is an application that secures the user's data residing on the personal data assistant and provides the facility to lock the device in order to disallow its use by other users. It uses optional, popular encryption and decryption algorithms such as 40-bit RC2, 40-bit RC4 and 56-bit DES in conjunction with Microsoft's Enhanced CryptoAPI that supports 128-bit AES encryption/decryption algorithms. The encryption/decryption will be done at the file and folder levels; each file can be encrypted/decrypted by its own key."
Features of "Airscanner™ Mobile AntiVirus Pro for Pocket PC" include:
"• Quarantine or eradicate embedded viruses and malware.
• Fast, optimized scanning speed based on patent pending technology.
• Automatic, online updates of virus signatures and scanning engine.
• Support for PocketPC 2003/Windows Mobile 2003.
• Easy online updates.
• Intercept memory resident viruses with an advanced process discovery tool.
• Debug Trojan hacks with an easy-to-use registry viewer.
• Uncover denial of service attacks with a rapid system analyzer.
• Enter your own custom virus signatures (for experts).
• Perform fast, recursive, and flexibly multithreaded filesystem scanning.
• Real-time virus scanning by default.
• Additional "Slow" background scanning option.
• A refined virus scanning engine that is 15% faster.
• Online update history logging.
• Real-time file input/output (I/O) event monitor notifies you when any files on your PDA are changed, created, or deleted...including full logging."
I use encryption software myself on my Pocket PC. I have also installed and tested Pocket PC based antivirus software, but due to lack of viruses (so far) I must admit that I uninstalled it. What do think? Will Pocket PC based antivirus software become a bestseller?
