According to Infoworld, Symantec is going to release a Windows Mobile version of its antivirus suite next week. It will come in 2 versions, for home and enterprise users, and will be updated similarly to its PC based version. The company already produces an antivirus product for Windows Mobile and Symbian smartphones, but this suite will also include anti spam features and a firewall.

I have to say I never liked those big security suites on desktops. They are huge, bloated, intrusive and slow the system down. The last thing I need for my smartphone is to be even slower because a whole security suite is running on it. Furthermore, the amount of viruses that can infect smartphones is tiny, and they all require users to install them to be infected. That’s not even counting the fact that any modern smartphone has many security features such as asking for permissions before allowing programs to write files on the device. We’ll see how these products are received, but I won’t be in any hurry to install them.

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