Fighting trojans and other malware with so-called "anti-virus" apps. If your question rather is about some piece of malware itself, use the 'malware' tag instead.
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Is an antivirus really needed for Android?
I use Linux for half a decade now, so I am not used to dealing with viruses anymore. To my surprise, I saw some discussion about antiviruses in Android. I haven't installed any yet, but this bugs me: ...
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Android and antiviruses
This is actually three questions:
Are anti-viruses needed for smartphones running Android OS?
Is the Android Market absolutely safe (because all precatuions are taken by Google to prevent any ...
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AVG by DroidSecurity - legit? Useful?
Re-post from StackOverflow, when suggested this was a more appropriate forum. I originally posted this on Whirlpool as well - I am very interested to see what new input I can get from this community.
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How to make sure I have no sms virus?
I'm using a non-rooted, non-hacked Samsung GT-I5700 device which runs Android 2.1.
Today I've received an MMS from an unknown phone with something which looked like a spam for Mastercard. I've ...
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Does AVG have any features that Lookout doesn't have, or vice versa?
I'm trying to decide which antivirus/malware protection I should use on my android phone.
It looks like the best options are either Lookout or AVG. Where can I find a list of features that the one ...
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Why has Android AntiVirus apps while iOS does not?
I have a Samsung Galaxy S2 and my friend has an iPhone.
I have downloaded and installed the Norton Anti Virus app. I am at a loss to understand why iOS seemingly does not need protection as such. A ...
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Android Antivirus Software (solution and battery life relevance)
Is there a security sollution for Android that's vastly regarded as "the best" one at the moment or is it like in the PC world where there's 3-4 which are "the best"?
Also, what should I expect to ...
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FakeGGSearch.a - Lookout found a virus on my Android Phone
I use Android 2.1update1 and installed Lookout, and now Lookout says that: "FakeGGSearch.a" is a trojan, but I can't uninstall it!
Now what? What can I do about this? Google didn't returned any ...
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Something's automatically sending “stuff” from my phone
Today I was on my computer and I had my phone (Samsung Galaxy S2 X) sitting beside me. All of a sudden the screen on the phone came on and instead of it showing the lock screen, it went directly to ...
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Questions about Samsung Galaxy S security applications
Hello
I would like to know whether is it recommended to have some antiVirus+firewall application for this current phone? (I usually open email attachments for example)
1.Do these applications runs ...
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Kaspersky fails to load
I have Kaspersky installed on my Samsung Galaxy S2. Since the last update it doesn't work anymore. I get a startup screen that asks for my email address for an anti-theft account. When I fill this in ...
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Lighter anti-virus app for Android devices [closed]
Do you know any software that would do the simplest anti-virus procedures, but with low memory consumption? Or one for only classify installed apps downloaded from alternative markets to secure or ...
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Get rid of virus that downloads apk
My android tablet, a zoom, has started to download apk's at random without any initiation on my part. I have the don't allow foreign apk's to be installed thing checked so they can't get on to the ...
