There's not yet anyone much programming malware for Maemo. Once upon a time there were no need for MS DOS antivirus either. But thinking security on ANY platform is good practice, even if there's no known exploits - yet.
Virus is an outdated term anyway, I would believe a rootkit is a more reasonable threat to worry about on this micro-webserver known as N900.
Edit: and of course, transmitting viruses. If you first hook this up as a drive on a virus infected machine, and then on another machine, the virus may be transferred.
Today I used my N800. I connected to the Internet as usual but had to remove Skype for the umpteenth time because the call button was again greyed out. When I went to Skype to reload it, I got the msg. untrusted certificate. Sadly I was in a hurry and did not inspect the certificate. I kept getting this msg. Every time after the first, I just hit cancel. Eventually when I hit the browser icon, it would say web loading. But it would not load. I also got the msg. that my browser had "no home" page.
When I got the N800, everyone bragged about how Nokia kept supporting "older" devices. Now I see that people who want to support MeeGo for the N800 are having their forum comments closed. As someone said Maemo is a "quirky" OS. The people who want to port Android to the N800 do not seem to be getting the necessary support. Are we left holding the empty box and a brick when we fail to check a certificate?
This thread is about virus. If talking about a virus is off-topic then I guess anything that reveals a flaw from Nokia is off-topic.
Hi Oouc - the reason why talking about flaws or bugs in a thread about virus's is off-topic is because these are different things.
A virus is a malicious application intended to compromise a computer, whereas a bug is a legitimate application behaving in unintended ways through programmatical errors.
You would be better off posting your comments about the issues with skype in a more relavent thread, as you are most likely to get better suggestions or help.
Hi.. Are there any anti-virus software available for Nokia N900..
There are many for Symbian versions.. so is any app expected for the N900 soon??
N900 is designed to be online 24/7 (although not all mayb), hence it is a very important that we have some good Anti-virus app like Norton, AVG, Mcafee etc.. for the Nokia N900..
