hello,
I was wondering, if wizard does have any antivirus software installed by default?
If no, what can you recommend?
wait until needed.
There hasn't been a WM5 virus circulating in the wild yet. While there is antivirus software available, it is a waste of your time, space and money. The first real (as opposed to proof of concept) virus will be big news.
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Sorry if this gets asked all the time guys, have scoured your excellent forum for info but to no avail.
My ignorance is due to being an ex smartphone owner, which i am sure you know are easy to de-cert.
I just want to chuck a load of games and non-approved utils onto my XDA, but DAMMIT, it won't fookin let me
Cracking forum by the way guys, has taken me ages to find you!
Mart
Never touched a smart phone. I've never heard of "de-cert." What is it? Doesn't sound like something that needs to be done on the XDA, certainly I've never seen it said here, and I've been around since the dinosaur ages.
It allows non valid windows CE applications to be installed - i.e. not officially approved software
I've never heard of an officially-approved piece of software for a Pocket PC. I don't think there is a certification program for that. In any case, your PPC will let you install any PPC software, approved or not, whatever, it won't care.
Excellent, however I keep getting
"filename" is not a valid windows CE setup file.
Am I being stupid here, installing in the wrong way?
I have only seen that error when I tried running the wrong version (not for Pocket PC) on my unit.
Might want to make sure the app is for Pocket PC and that the cpu type is correct.
Cheers - most of my smartphone software must be incompatible then, even though the spv uses a version of PPC.
Any site recommendations where I can get hold of PPC software for free? seems to be damn expensive in most places!
Thanks again
Smartphone software IS certified... Basically, you pay Microsoft to be able to have your software run on smartphones.
Regular pocket PC or windows mobile on xda devices does NOT have this restriction (and those devices are what this forum is about..)
Smartphone software is not PPC-compatible. Lots of titles have releases for both PPC and Smatphone, but I've never seen one that has both in the same release (though I suppose you could package multiple versions with one installer).
In any case, go to the developers' sites and see if they have PPC compatible versions.
wfberg said:
Smartphone software IS certified... Basically, you pay Microsoft to be able to have your software run on smartphones.
Regular pocket PC or windows mobile on xda devices does NOT have this restriction (and those devices are what this forum is about..)
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Not true, some Smartphone software is certified but not all. There are many applications available for MS Smartphone that can only run on application unlocked handsets. Not all authors can afford to apply for certification and for many utils it's hardly worth the bother. Thankfully for most of the existing handsets it is relatively easy to application unlock them so that uncertified apps can be installed.
And going back to the OP's question, Smartphone software is not the same as PocketPC software and whilst a few rare titles can be run on both, most cannot.
www.freewareppc.com
has loads of goodies on there.
Smartphone software wise - I am not sure but I think I saw an emulator for PPC at one point - could not find it though - does anybody know if this exists as there is some good programs for smartphone that have no PPC equal???
Hi all,
what is the best Antivirus for my Jam?
Is it really necessary?
I don't want to install stuff that make my jam too slow...
I wouldn't worry about it yet. I don't think there are too many viruses out there yet as there aren't too many people with pda phones or pdas on the net or constantly receiving MMS messages. Later in the future, yes.
I don't think we are there yet, either. But the latest ROM has eTrust in it, I think...
I'va installed the last WWE ROM and I've not got it... :-(
It comes on the extended rom, so if you did big storage and removed it, then naturally it's not there. Alternatively, grab it as a standalone from Club I-mate (requires an account)
Oh, and the virus database in it doesn't have a single virus so it's pretty useless at the moment. You'll be able to scan but there'll be nothing to look for!!
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I wouldn't worry about it yet. I don't think there are too many viruses out there yet as there aren't too many people with pda phones or pdas on the net or constantly receiving MMS messages. Later in the future, yes.
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*hacker with PDA reads this, rubs hands together eagerly and begins work on a PDA virus due to this comment*
jimmy-bish said:
It comes on the extended rom, so if you did big storage and removed it, then naturally it's not there. Alternatively, grab it as a standalone from Club I-mate (requires an account)
Oh, and the virus database in it doesn't have a single virus so it's pretty useless at the moment. You'll be able to scan but there'll be nothing to look for!!
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PC-Cillin (for Pocket PC)
antivirus.com/wireless
Engine version:5.200-0522
Pattern version: 795
3 files
common 58.2k
Pcciwin 41.5k
slm$vpn 167k
Works great!
Cheers
Markino said:
Hi all,
what is the best Antivirus for my Jam?
Is it really necessary?
I don't want to install stuff that make my jam too slow...
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Another free-for-personal-use antivirus software. Go to: http://www.airscanner.com/downloads/av/av.html to download.
taywilb said:
PC-Cillin (for Pocket PC)
antivirus.com/wireless
Engine version:5.200-0522
Pattern version: 795
3 files
common 58.2k
Pcciwin 41.5k
slm$vpn 167k
Works great!
Cheers
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I stand corrected. I looked on google and found this dated 19th July so it's fairly old. BBC news of first virus.
I also went to F-Secure antivirus site, which has a pocket PC version of it's software. Turns out they have 2 virus definitions. One's the virus mentioned above, the other is called Brador and is a backdoor trojan. Neither of which have been released out in the "wild", just proof of concept viruses.
Sorry to seem misleading. I'm not panicking yet, though.
Well... in your opinion wich antivirus is the best?
And what about spyware? Is there anything for that on ppc's, or aren't there any ppc-spywares out there yet?
Was just doing a search through the forums to see what would be good for my o2 mini.
It appears antivirus isn't that important yet....
Although this thread is a few months old however so are people still of the same opinion or do most has some type of antivirus installed now?
Cheers for some new thoughts
marto
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Hey,
found that on the web:
http://www.safer-networking.org/en/wince/index.html
It's a pocket pc portation of a good freeware spyware scanner. Works pretty good on my Magician - although the last database update of the mobile version was in June 2007. I'm interested in what you think about it.
Greetz, Mike.
Hi guys,
I have just got my new K-JAM (ROM 1.1.9.3 - 9/16/05, Radio 01.01.10, extROM 1.1.9.104), and I am delighted so far.
I have also read a lot about how to remove the antivirus software from the extended rom, etc. On my device, I didn't have this problem at all. I simply used the "Remove Programs" function to remove the antivirus, Backgammon, and also Skype of I wish.
In any case, the Antivirus was not running on my device even before being uninstalled, because I replied "no" to the request for downloading virus signatures. This has made the antivirus software completely inactive. This sounds to me like an easier solution for removing the antivirus software.
On my device, ClearType works in Landscape too, out of the box, without touching the registry.
Have I got a newer sw version or what?
Hope this helps.
some of the early release did not show the uninstall for the antivirus,
there is a fix for this on the i-mate web site
Do we need an Antivirus Package on the device when running WM6?
And if we do, what is the best one?
Thanx!
Noone does need an antivirus package on PPC.
If you think you should use one, that does mean that symantec advertising campaign was good
I used trend on wm5 coz i got it by my job...
but not tried yet on wm6... will do, but think its not necessary yet
How would one get a virus on Windows Mobile? You'd have to download and run an executable to do it. Either that, or get exploited over a network via a security hole, or through Pocket IE. There haven't been many exploits that I've heard of.
I doubt it's worth the processor time to run one.
Hi all
Need any good AntiVirus Software for my HTC MEGA.
Hi again ganesh.htc,
I can point you towards some anti-viruses for WinMo but in my opinion they arent really necessary, I've never had a virus on my Mega yet, and the AV's I've used restrict what you do with your phone, ESET and Dr Web both prevented me from transfering files between my pc and phone.
Hows MyScript working out for you btw?
You could use lookout mobile protection.......https://www.mylookout.com/
Have installed it for a couple of weeks. No side effects but I wonder if you need it.......
thanks a lot for ur valuable suggestion
Ur MyStylus i working great.
Thanks Frank for mobile protection. I just wanted a Antivirus software as i browse a lot in my mobile.