  Nowadays, mobile handsets combine the functionality of mobile phones and
PDAs. Unfortunately, mobile handsets development process has been driven by
market demand, focusing on new features and neglecting security. So, it is
imperative to study the existing challenges that facing the mobile handsets
threat containment process, and the different techniques and methodologies that
used to face those challenges and contain the mobile handsets malwares. This
paper also presents a new approach to group the different malware containment
systems according to their typologies.
