Kaspersky Lab has released a beta version of mobile anti-virus software for smart phones using the Symbian OS, it announced Thursday
The product, called Kaspersky Anti-Virus Mobile 2.0, can stop suspicious programs before they infect the phone and scan devices for malicious software, the company said.
Kaspersky is one of many vendors pushing mobile anti-virus products to market as malicious software increasingly targets those devices.
The company said its software is equipped to blocked suspect Short Message Service (SMS) and Multimedia Messaging Service (MMS) messages. The product uses a so-called "blacklist" to compare messages and block spam.
The software can be set to download regular updates from Kaspersky Lab servers by Wireless Application Protocol (WAP) or HTTP, the company said.
Anti-Virus Mobile is compatible with phones using the Symbian 6.1, 7.0s, 8.0 or 8.1 OS versions and the Series 60 user interface.
The second beta version will support Symbian Series UIQ and Microsoft's Windows Mobile Versions 2003 and 5.0, Kaspersky said.
