Belkin comes with a charger that smartphones automatically on malware scanning. The charger can also automatically, if an infection is identified, the operating system clean up. Smartphonefabrikanten should, however, provide support for the charger.
The charger is at the end of this year Belkin released, but makes use of technology of the start-up Kaprica. The so-called Skorpion charger analyzes the besturingssysteemsbestanden of the phone. The integrated virus scanner from the charger would not be susceptible to malware that tries to hide, by virus scanners on the phone itself to make you believe that there is no infection or by scan results to match.
Which smartphones the charger exactly supports, is unclear. The scorpion is particularly suitable for Android smartphones, reports the company. Kaprica will need to work with smartphonefabrikanten to the charger for their phones to make them suitable. The company lets us know that at the time of the introduction of a partner has that both Android and Windows Phone devices. Witness the picture it will probably be HTC.
The scorpion works very simply: the user must connect the charger to the phone and plug the charger into the wall outlet. Next, the accessory will automatically run a quick scan. If everything is in order, light a green light on. The phone stays on the charger, than it will at a preset time to restart, after which the charger is a complete virus scan will run. This scan takes approximately four to six minutes.
If a problem is found, the light on the charger is red and it is possible to automatically get to a good version of the operating system to repair. If it is so far out that even the charger gets infected, then it would be according to Kaprica still impossible to new applications or code to the phone to add.
However, there are also disadvantages of the invention of Kaprica: Skorpion scans only on demand and not on-access, which means that an infection afterwards can be determined. Popular security applications for mobile can, however, often in real-time users against attacks protect. In addition, there are concerns about the security updates: assistant professor Xuxian Jiang of the department of computer science from North Carolina State University, fears that updates intercepts could be, because this, via the wireless network connection of the phone can be acquired, and so the effectiveness of the charger useless. According to him, would the Scorpion be more effective in combination with a mobile app.
Belkin and Kaprica are planning the Skorpion charger later this year to start selling to business customers for about $ 65, a monthly sum must be paid 3 or 4 dollars for updates.
