Comparison of Mobile Security Software

Mobile phones are getting more and more advanced day by day and becoming a basic need of any business or home user. Things are going very fast and features available on smart phones are growing rapidly. This also creating security related issues on mobile phones. There is a need to secure the phones whether you are working as a business man or using a phone privately you must take care of few very basic things on smart phones. I will try to share all the required things but there is a long list available and it’s not possible to list of them in just one or two pages. As mobile phones are smart, stylish, small and very expensive so they are very prime target for thieves so it is very important to secure the data and the phones from being stolen. To avoid such scenarios, modern security products are offering few very rich and important features given as under:

  • Theft protection
  • Firewall
  • Virus Protection

Now I would like to talk about the security software’s and compare a bit about the features. Basic requirements from a security software are given as under:

  • Security Check
  • Real Time protection
  • Spam Filtering
  • Theft Protection
  • Firewall

There are number of security software available in the market for smart and mobile phones to protect and secure but I would like to compare the features of the under given security softwares.

  1. ESET Mobile Security
  2. F-Secure Mobile Security
  3. Kaspersky Mobile Security
  4. Trend Micro Mobile Security

Feature List Mobile Security Softwares

Product Name ESET Mobile Security F-Secure Mobile Security Kaspersky Mobile Security Trend Micro Mobile Security
Support OS Windows Mobile 5.0-6.5 Windows Mobile 5.0-6.5 Windows Mobile 5.0-6.5 Windows Mobile 5.0-6.5
Antispam        
Whitelist/blacklist calls Yes
Whitelist/blacklist SMS Yes Yes Yes
Whitelist/blacklist MMS Yes Yes
Block Known Spam Yes Yes
Theft Protection        
Report sim change Yes Yes
Report phone number by sms Yes Yes Yes Yes
possibility to receive call while locked Yes Yes
make emergency call while locaked Yes Yes
Firewall        
in bound/out bound Traffic Yes Yes Yes Yes
Different protection levels Yes Yes Yes Yes
Activity Log Yes Yes Yes
Protection Log Yes Yes Yes Yes

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