The app is called Child Safe and is made by Finnish security form F-Secure.
Security firm F-Secure warned last Friday that an in-the-wild attack would likely surface this week.
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F-Secure offers software that scans WAP scripts going out to phones from WAP servers.
"Other botnets have been rented out in the past, but never Storm, " says F-secure researcher Patrik Runald.
Under the terms of the agreement, Finjan's SurfinShield Corporate product will integrate with F-Secure's antivirus security management console.
F-Secure, one of McAfee's rivals, became one of the first vendors to offer antivirus software for wireless devices.
Mikko Hypponen, chief research officer at security firm F-Secure, said that another Sony breach had been almost inevitable.
Under Siilasmaa's leadership, F-Secure has created a wireless-security model that has attracted major players like Cisco, Hewlett-Packard and Nokia.
"F-Secure is ahead of the game, " says Larry Lang, a Cisco marketing VP.
In the past two years, until this October, F-Secure found only a small handful of malicious programs targeting Macs.
According to security firm F-Secure, GPS Spy was created by Max Lifshin, a Russian developer based in Texas.
Security firm F-Secure has experimented with different ways the exploit could infect users through email and text messages.
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F-Secure make a security tool for Android, Symbian and Windows Mobile devices.
Mikko Hypponen is chief security officer for F-Secure, a leading computer security company.
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F-Secure sits at the end of a dead-end road, in a modern white building with cameras on the watch outside.
In the past year, all have inked deals to have F-Secure develop defense measures for their wireless gadgets and networks.
"The numbers today are small, but the potential is huge, " says Mikko Hypponen, chief research officer for antivirus firm F-Secure.
Among other activity at F-Secure comes word this week that the company has forged a deal with security specialist Finjan Software.
"Siilasmaa is clearly a visionary, " says Louis Judice, a regional manager for HP's Mobile E-Services Bazaar, of which F-Secure is a member.
Should F-Secure, which offers services to protect computers and malware, opt out of detecting certain government trojans, depending which government was making the request?
F-Secure also offers protection against the Palm OS Phage.963 virus and the Palm Liberty Trojan, both of which have come to the public's attention.
In August, F-Secure released the first-ever distributed antivirus product, for mobile devices running Symbian's EPOC operating system, and expects to follow with other wireless platforms.
Of the 41 products, only seven scanners, from Avast, F-Secure, Lookout, Kaspersky, Ikarus, Dr. Web and Zoner, detected more than 90 percent of Android malware.
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F-Secure is making other uses of wireless technology as well.
Sean Sullivan, a security adviser for computer-security company F-Secure Corp.
By 2004, more than a billion people are expected to own mobile phones, mostly data-enabled, and Siilasmaa is trying to position F-Secure to play a major role in protecting these devices.
An end-of-year report by Finnish software security company F-Secure highlights the growing number of hackers targeting Apple systems with malicious software, some of which could allow cybercriminals to steal security passwords.
Tracing the physical location of phishing sites that impersonated pages from U.K.-based Barclay and Halifax banks, F-secure's researchers found that they were hosted on the same Russian server used for distributing Storm in recent weeks.
F-secure's researchers also report the software used to mimic Barclay's and Halifax's banking sites is a primitive phishing kit from 2004--a sign that Storm's innovative creators are renting out their real estate to less savvy cyber-criminals.
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