Can PC AV detect mobile viruses?

I wanted to know does the antivirus(norton,avast,quickheal etc)software which we install on our pc are capable of detecting viruses in symbian files.I use avast home edition.Plz let me know.

No i dont think so...

Special Mobile AV r in market which will detect it...

no.

r'nt d op systems difrnt

so a difrnt set of av programs r avlbl.

Is there any free Antivirus software for s60 v2 phones?

Dude i accidentally discover that PC AV(ANTI VIR) does detects symbian OS virus.. While scanning my PC it detected three of them..

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Yeah, Avast professional too detected either Commworrior or Skull or Cabir(Dont rembr exactly) in my case n didnt allowed the download to complete!!!

and kaspersky also detected a virus when i attached the memory card to the system...

AVG 7.5 also detected LOADS of Viruses (like 100s of them on the Memory Stick) when my Cousin put the mem. card in the Lappy.

I want to know Is it all a Mobile Virus??? May be a PC virus in Mobile Memory card.. Thats all...

47shailesh said:
Dude i accidentally discover that PC AV(ANTI VIR) does detects symbian OS virus.. While scanning my PC it detected three of them..

ya i too found the same
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Ganeshkumar said:
I want to know Is it all a Mobile Virus??? May be a PC virus in Mobile Memory card.. Thats all...

ya it may be that case also.. ok i will tell you.. let me google a bit

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Yeah.... many PC worms n Virus come to ur MMC frm PC n many of them detected are PC viruses. BTW m sure dat my AV detected mobile virus coz i know many mobile viruses and it was one of them(Whch my AV detected)

yup... all new pc avs detect symbian viruses...

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Hey PC AV can detect mobile antivirus on Symbian based devices. I use Symantec AV to scan my mobi. You should try this.

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But they detect very few of them. Hardly it detected one or two out of my virus collection

P.S : I use Avast Professional

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plz see it:
*nokiafree.org/forums/showthread.php?p=354434

well avast detects all the viruses i hv tested on my cell so far...

Pathiks which av?Avast home or pro.I use home edition.

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I had some variants of Cabir bt it didnt detect any.........

AVAST home... also try mcafee 2007

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Havent tried McAfee yet, wl try it n see

avast n mc afee both detected caribe variants, skullz, commwarrior, red.... , mosquitos In my mmc..

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Is it caribe or Cabir ??

caribe and cabir are the same... some ppl call it caribe n some cabir...

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Oho.... mine AV, Symantec, on cell detected it as Cabir

Will the Mobile Virus Come only in symbian phones or other phones too??
Is there any link to download Mobile AV???

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Hey bro Pathik i chckd out Avast's DB for mobile viruses and found out that it could detect only about 50 symbian viruses while the mobile AVs have DB of abt 300!!
Though most of the common viruses are there in Avast's DB bt its quite less as compared to mobile AVs and so not very dependable