F-Secure anti theft for Mobile phones - Now free
This works with Symbian, Windows mobile and Android phones
unfortunately does not list Iphone or blackberry.
The app itself does the following:
Remote lock
Remote locate
Remote wipe
SIM control (if SIM swapped, device locks, sends you their #)
WaveSecure costs US$20p/a now. I got mine free in beta too, but does that mean we've only got it for a year?
No if you got it free in beta. Its lifetime free licence =]
thank god i got in beta.
Wow.. I've never seen an app ask for every permission on Android…
scary
Nice share, keep them coming!
Here's a link to it in the Ovi Store:
http://store.ovi.com/content/22205?clickSource=search
The reviews of it seem pretty average.
Does the lost phone use GPRS to send the data if using 'remote locate' or 'sim lock'? Because i disable GPRS. Anyone know?
It uses GPS to locate itself and send co-ordinates AFAIK. GPS can run without GPRS, however, A-GPS (Assisted GPS) needs GPRS/3G to boost the GPS signal locks.
ahh its not for viruses its for when the phone is stolen. Come on at least read the description.
Who gets phone viruses?
???
How's that relevant to this deal?
Yep, my bad.. F-Secure = Antivirus to me
On this page, http://www.f-secure.com/en_EMEA/products/mobile/anti-theft-f…, it says "Send text message: #locate#<your code> to your phone to see its location on a map."
What is <your code>?
Edit: Never mind, it's the password that you set
I don't get it. So, say you've lost your phone.. how do you locate it/lock it? And you have you send a text message "#locate# to your phone to see its location on a map". so what number do you send it to?
priscillaa. From "another" phone (or via internet or some Telstra public phones these days) you send an SMS to YOUR phone number. Cheers.
If the very first thing the thief does is to take out the battery, I wonder if the software is still good…
pffft… downloaded, installed, then it asked to update, clicked update then force close…
… uninstalled
on nexus one froyo
Lol probably doesn't support froyo..
Works great on desire 2.1…
anyone tried on a nokia e71 it seems worth a try for free?
WaveSecure (that some of us got free in beta) now has "unistall protection". Does this product have it? ie. can the thief just uninstall it?
Additionally, under FroYo, waveSecure also survives a factory reset now too. What about this product? I'm guessing no considering someone posted it FC's on FroYo
Yeah I find WaveSecure to be a way more awesome app. I feel bad for all the people that missed out during the beta when they just gave away lifetime licenses… But now its a paid service. Like stumo said, Wavesecure is pretty bulletproof. Plus, if you're rooted, you can put it under the system/app directory, making it impossible to uninstall and unless someone manages to somehow wipe and flash another ROM before you can get onto a browser and send the lock phone signal (which is quite impossible to achieve considering just how little time it takes to send the lock signal), I think WaveSecure is complete.
And just the way F-Secure asks for every single permission (for an app that's not on the Android Market), looks scary to me.
WaveSecure does a very good job of this. I always thought WaveSecure was free since i signed up in the beta days. Not sure if WaveSecure is still free, but that app is awesome.
Anyone know much about F-Secure?