android virus
Even though there hasn’t being any major report of virus or malware going around the androidsphere, it is better being save than sorrow. Our smartphones now habor a lot of media and important files that is very important to protect them. Norton, AVG, and other big antivirus software companies are yet to started getting into the smartphone antivirus business, but sooner of later the will. There has being threat of virus on iPhone before, that only means that your android phone should be protected. Here are some anti-virus to protect you android phone.
Antivirus for android
Antivirus pro
Protects your phone from viruses, malware and malicious Hackers; prevent virus infected and spam sms, lost and theft recovery service. It will cost you android $5, but in the end it will be worth the security.
android antivirus
There is not so many antivirus apps floating around yet. I will keep you posted if I find more.
Anybody who thinks that an antivirus is going to be useful on an android phone is sorely mistaken.
First off, because of the way that android is designed, the only things that an antivirus could possibly check are (1) itself, and (2) the sdcard contents.
An antivirus obviously doesn’t need to check itself, since if it is compromised, so are its scan results (in other words, an infected antivirus program would NOT be able to detect that it is infected).
The sdcard is mounted WITHOUT EXECUTE permissions, therefore any kind of virus that may be stored on the sdcard is effectively neutralized.
A very important point that people need to realize is this;
EACH ANDROID APPLICATION runs as its OWN USER. If you install a dangerous program, its damage is restricted to (a) itself, and (b) whatever additional permissions you give it…. which is NOT something that can be checked by some OTHER program. Note that the additional permissions means that that application gets to use API calls to perform specific functions, like read the contact list and connect to the internet, potentially sending your contact list to some spammer in some country whose name can’t be pronounced. IF A PROGRAM does this, your “antivirus” program would be UNABLE TO TELL — because it simply DOES NOT HAVE ACCESS!!!!
Here is a simple fact:
ALL android programs that claim to be an antivirus are one of two things;
1) SCAM to take your $$,
2) SPYWARE. Yes, it is possible to install spyware on an android phone. No, it is not possible to detect it as such.
*** IT IS YOUR RESPONSIBILITY TO VERIFY SOFTWARE THAT YOU INSTALL!!!! NO VIRUS SCANNER CAN DO THAT FOR YOU.
*** IF YOU ARE INSTALLING A PROGRAM THAT ASKS FOR PERMISSIONS THAT IT OBVIOUSLY DOES NOT NEED, DO NOT CONTINUE!!! FOR EXAMPLE, A BINARY CALCULATOR THAT ASKS FOR INTERNET AND READ/WRITE CONTACT DATABASE — WHY WOULD IT NEED THAT? IT DOESN’T!!! DO NOT ALLOW!
*** AVOID SOFTWARE REQUESTING IMPORTANT PERMISSIONS WHEN COMING FROM AN UNKNOWN DEVELOPER!