McAfee looking after handsets with anti-virus platform.(Focus)

Byline: KELLY HILL

Imagine this: a company's chief financial officer uses his smart phone to download a game while waiting at an airport-but the game contains a virus that sends all the data on the phone to a Web site, and the company's financial results get posted on the Internet a week before the company files with the Securities and Exchange Commission. Or, a mobile sales representative's infected phone allows a hacker to siphon off customer account numbers and personal information.

Those are worst-case security scenarios, granted. But personal computer security provider McAfee Inc. is introducing a product to prevent such situations by protecting phones…