Wednesday, May 2, 2012

Which antivirus your should pick for your android smartphone?


With the expansion of the smartphones on the mobile market, people are starting to worry about the security of their devices. Usually the devices are vounerable in different areas. Plus additional rooting of your android can be fatal.

Plenty of PC OS's are pretty much in danger without using antivirus. For your smartphone you should be aware of these things that decrease the security of your smartphone:



- I want to use my device at work. For medium to big size companies this is not acceptable. Really not acceptable. Usually people want to customize their devices, use them at work for reading email, communicating with other coleagues. But the freedom of having your own device provides a security breach for the system. Security must be implemented on all devices that are connected to the internal company network.

- Open Source software usage. Android is Open Source software, custom roms are developed by enthusiasts. Usually people who are using custom roms are rooting their devices. Rooting can grant various privileges to the user of the smartphone. Exploiters know the code and can easily exploit it. It's recommended for every user that has rooted phone, to update it with fresh roms to stop the flaws.

- Permissions. Plenty of applications ask for read permission from users. They ask for reading SMS messages, phone books, SD cards, even they ask for usage of your GPS signal. Everything is OK if you are using the Google Play software. But not everyone wants to pay for the software on their smartphones. People are trying to search for "free" version of the software attending black markets. Black markets can be devastating for your cell and suspicious applications can steal your data. Be aware.

But you can protect yourself, you can install antivirus software to keep away from malware software. This are our recommendations:

NetQin 








Not so famous like other antivirus software, but it can help you, scan in real time, monitor the traffic, optimize your smartphone, backup your contact, protect and trace stolen phone.

ESET Mobile Security















Entering antivirus for smartphones market is not easy, but because of the old fame ESET are entering with their very solid product. They offer anti-theft system (remote lock, finding device, remote wipe, password reset), advanced on-access scanning, SIM Matching (protection against unauthorized SIM card insertion), security audit with built-in task manager and uninstall protection.

F-Secure Mobile Security














Their marketing slogan is: "Do you value the contents of your smartphone?". We all do, aren't we. Complete package with antivirus scanner, safeguard for personal and confidential data, recognizer of dangerous websites, anti-theft system. They even have child protection (unwanted SMS/MMS messages and web guardian system).

Kaspersky Mobile Security 9












Jackie Chan now protects your smartphone. They have in their software anti-theft, antivirus, anti-spam and privacy protection. For the anti-theft protection they use Google Maps for locating the missing phone. Unlike the Symbian version of their software, the Android version doesn't have data encryption, parental controls and firewall protection.

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