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General => General discussion => Topic started by: simonpolly on 27 February 2012, 14:16
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What anti virus would you recommend for a android phone or what do you use ? :undecided:
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None, read the permissions properly, verify the publisher and don't install if it has a few thousand installs, leave it a for a few weeks and see if it still exists or the install base has gone up :wink: Usually legit apps will have tens or hundreds of thousands of installs before you'll hear about it :smiley: oh and install only from the Market or Amazon Market, side loaded app can contain nasties, which is where most of the problems arise from.
If you DO really want an AV program I tried the Avast! program and it was very good in that the features it provided was great, found no viruses of course because they don't exist as such, I used it for a few weeks and it gives you so much control it's amazing it's free! Comes with a phone tracker too, incase it gets lost :smiley:
Ofc being a geek I tend to wipe my phone every now and then and not bother with most of my apps I have purchased, let alone the ones I haven't :grin:
https://market.android.com/details?id=com.avast.android.mobilesecurity
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So its safe to surf the internet and internet bank on a mobile without a anti virus ?,i tried avg on my samsung tab and like you say it never seems to find anything and im not complete sure that it does anything.
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There are very few actual threats you need to worry about on mobiles tbh and it's usually blown way out of proportion, however I've just had this come through in an IT Security Email which kinda blows all SmartPhone security away, ironically it doesn't effect Windows Phones :grin:
http://www.techweekeurope.co.uk/news/rsa-2012-zero-day-webkit-flaw-allows-android-device-takeover-63020