Apr 3 -- F-Secure Corp., a global provider of security as a service through mobile operators and Internet Service Providers, announced Tuesday its Mobile Security solution for the Windows Mobile platform. The solution brings new levels of protection for Windows Mobile Smartphone and PocketPC users.
F-Secure Mobile Security enables smartphone users to enjoy the complete potential of their devices without the fear of mobile threats. The application combines real-time anti-virus and anti-spyware functionality with a firewall, ensuring complete protection for connected lives. A firewall provides additional security for all mobile devices that access public networks like Wi-Fi. The solution also delivers automatic over-the-air antivirus updates.
F-Secure protects consumers and businesses against computer viruses and other threats from the Internet and mobile networks. F-Secure's solutions are available as a service subscription through more than 160 Internet service providers (ISPs) and mobile operator partners around the world. The solutions are also available as licensed products through thousands of resellers globally.
F-Secure aims at helping to make computer and smartphone users' connected lives safe and easy. Founded in 1988 and headquartered in Finland, F-Secure has been listed on the OMX Nordic Exchange Helsinki since 1999.
F-Secure Mobile Security prevents malware from causing unwanted billing as the malicious software tries to spread or call premium rate numbers, deleting valuable information from the device, making the device unusable, and sending information from the device to third parties
With this launch of its Mobile Security product, F-Secure offers a complete security suite with firewall, antivirus and anti-spyware functionality for all the main mobile platforms running an open operating system: Windows Mobile, Symbian and UIQ.
F-Secure Mobile Security can be subscribed from selected mobile operators as a service, purchased directly from the F-Secure eStore, or bought from resellers worldwide. The product will be available during the second quarter of this year.
