Windows Phone Thoughts: McAfee to Offer Cingular Wireless Customers Mobile Anti-Virus Security Services

"McAfee, Inc. (NYSE: MFE), the leading dedicated security technology company, today announced that it will offer Cingular Wireless customers mobile security solutions for business-oriented devices. McAfee provides comprehensive mobile security solutions that are designed to protect against and prevent mobile threats and vulnerabilities. Its flagship product is McAfee VirusScan Mobile. "While mobile threats have presented themselves largely as proof of concept, we think it's important for carriers to get ahead of the curve, and offer proactive and preventative solutions before a significant attack occurs," commented Todd Gebhart, senior vice president of Worldwide Consumer and Mobile Sales at McAfee, Inc."

This is a little dull. Another OEM offering another mobile anti-virus package. With mobile viruses currently posing almost zero threat to the Windows Mobile community, wouldn't it be nicer to see these anti-virus packages focus on the use of mobile devices as a transport mechanism for desktop viruses instead? Of course, you'd have to factor in the size of the virus definitions, but I think that's something half of us are willing to bite on. If a piece of software is going to hog system resources and storage, and cost us a few quid per pop, it may as well offer some benefits, right? ;)