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Personal Firewall in Mobile Phone

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Overview This paper gives an evaluation of a need for a personal firewall in mobile phone. In today's commercial products personal firewall in mobile phone does not exist. This paper analyzes the role of personal firewall in different scenarios. At the beginning of the paper functions that already exist in personal firewall for PC were discussed in the sense of which could be useful in personal firewall for mobile phone. This paper also covers description of connection between personal firewall and virus in addition to what personal firewall can do to prevent virus and other malicious software.

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Publisher	Agder University College	File Format	PDF
Date Published	May 2004
Format	White Papers
Topics	Firewalls, Security Tools, Mobile - Wireless Communications

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