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1330532 2013-02-28 04:49:00 What are the options and which do you believe to be the more secure or 'robust' among the free offers? I have used Comodo internet security premium for the last two years on my pc and I can't fault it, and it is free. Unfortunately I don't think they make software for tabs yet. Sanco (683)
1330533 2013-02-28 05:20:00 The day you have to start running av on a tablet is day people will stop using them plod (107)
1330534 2013-02-28 05:22:00 Yeah contrary to what you may get told, you don't actually need:
Battery defenders
Antivirus
Security suites
Task managers

They're all a complete and utter waste!

Something that may be useful: droidlost.com
Chilling_Silence (9)
1330535 2013-02-28 05:46:00 We got Nod32 on SWMBO's Android, it stopped a download stating it was "com.nordcurrent. games101" ( A Variant of @ApplicUnwnt.Android/Leadbot.B)

McAfees Description: home.mcafee.com

Basically Adware.
wainuitech (129)
1330536 2013-02-28 05:59:00 Yeah lots of them have that kind of thing in them, AirPush for example, but it's easy to disable the ads if you're running Jellybean. Just tap and hold on the notification, go to App Info then untick "Show notifications". Sorted ;) Chilling_Silence (9)
1330537 2013-02-28 06:17:00 Rather stop them getting on in the first place thanks. wainuitech (129)
1330538 2013-02-28 06:19:00 Well technically they're just ads, they're not *actually* viruses, and it's how devs pay for games like that 101 in 1 games your wifey downloaded :D Chilling_Silence (9)
1330539 2013-02-28 06:39:00 Dunno, I thought that accessing the net would carry risks. Perhaps I am paranoid, but then I think of them days when my friends used to say to me: "get Mac and you won't need no firewall and virus scan" ... yeah, those were the days... Sanco (683)
1330540 2013-02-28 06:46:00 I think of them days when my friends used to say to me: "get Mac and you won't need no firewall and virus scan" ... yeah, those were the days ...

Yeah, never mind that they're holier than IE6 ;)
pcuser42 (130)
1330541 2013-02-28 07:40:00 Well technically they're just ads, they're not *actually* viruses, and it's how devs pay for games like that 101 in 1 games your wifey downloaded :D ;) that's why I mentioned adware, not a virus ( there is difference as we know) :p , what they can do :
shows ads related to other applications that may be interesting for the user but, at the same time, it is able to send sensitive information (brand, manufacturer, model, Android version, IP address, phone number and IMEI) to the remote server = Adware actions.
wainuitech (129)
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