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Anti virus for android phone
Is an anti virus for an android phone required. If so any idea on what one is best
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Is an anti virus for an android phone required. If so any idea on what one is best
Be careful what privileges an app is asking for when you are installing it and check for reviews and number of downloads. |
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I've started using Lookout and haven't had problems so far.
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Is an anti virus for an android phone required. If so any idea on what one is best
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Thanks for the replies. One more question any idea when jelly bean will be rolled out ?
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It's really malware I've Lookout for. I read about apps that sent out texts to premium rate services. I don't have any anti virus app on my Nexus 7.
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Thanks for the replies. One more question any idea when jelly bean will be rolled out ?
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Thanks for the replies. One more question any idea when jelly bean will be rolled out ?
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Depends what device you have...maybe never
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Atrix been looking on google but cant find any dates for official release. Plenty of downloads for unofficial jelly bean mod but not going to install it.
https://forums.motorola.com/pages/00add97d6c Shocking situation really, as the Atrix is a decent device that's more than capable of running ICS and JB. Sadly though it seems to be par for the course for non-Nexus Android devices. |
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http://www.independent.co.uk/news/bu...s-8119841.html
A timely warning that policing 500,000+ apps is going to be rough on any platform. I limit my choice of apps and even big ones which ask for too many permissions I avoid. Anyone recommend a permission guard for others? To me HTML, Flash and Java as a web app framework is heaven compared to single installed apps for everything! |
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http://www.sophos.com/en-us/products...e-edition.aspx
I haven't tried it but I use sophos on my mac & I'm very pleased. |
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http://www.independent.co.uk/news/bu...s-8119841.html
A timely warning that policing 500,000+ apps is going to be rough on any platform. I limit my choice of apps and even big ones which ask for too many permissions I avoid. Anyone recommend a permission guard for others? Code:
fdisk /dev/hdb Quote:
To me HTML, Flash and Java as a web app framework is heaven compared to single installed apps for everything!
What if you dont have a signal? or are doing computational tasks or even gaming?Apps do more than order pizza you know |
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http://www.independent.co.uk/news/bu...s-8119841.html
A timely warning that policing 500,000+ apps is going to be rough on any platform. I limit my choice of apps and even big ones which ask for too many permissions I avoid. Anyone recommend a permission guard for others? To me HTML, Flash and Java as a web app framework is heaven compared to single installed apps for everything! And the statistic on the increasing level of threat is totally meaningless. If they have real data, they should provide it. |
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Apps do more than order pizza you know
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But most don't even do that so they never get installed.
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Big surprise. A founder of a software security company thinks we should do more security.
And the statistic on the increasing level of threat is totally meaningless. If they have real data, they should provide it. |
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I have no problem with people predicting that at some point in the future AV for phones might be needed.
It is for everyone to judge the risk for themselves, but for how I use my phone I see no need at all for AV at the moment. My main complaint was the meaningless statistic provided to try and back up the scare mungering. |
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I had a free one off the Play store (think it was called Zoner or something like that).
I had no problem with it, and but thought I would go with the free Karpasky offer that Barclays were doing (thinking that if I ever had any problems them it was Barclays choice of AV software). They both don't seem to have slowed my S3 down, and but not sure about older slower phones? |
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