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| Thread ID: 122643 | 2012-01-04 08:38:00 | How do I know my Android phone is free of keylogger / virus / nasty ware etc.? | Renmoo (66) | Press F1 |
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| 1252122 | 2012-01-04 08:38:00 | Hi all, I have been downloading and running apps from Android market, but how do I know whether a keylogger (e.g.) will be grabbed and installed in the process? Also, is it worth running an antivirus app? e.g. AVG Antivirus app from the Android market? Cheers :) |
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| 1252123 | 2012-01-04 19:11:00 | If there are apps on the Android Market that are determined to be of bad nature like that, then when they get removed, Google can also do a remote uninstallation. You also have the capability to see what each app is requesting access to within your phone, for example most apps *don't* need the ability to read your contacts list, or send / receive SMS messages. Things like "reading phone state" allow it to sleep / pause the game when a call comes in, and "full internet access" usually just means it's ad-supported. Not worth it for the anti-virus side, but I've seen a lot of glowing recommendations for Avasts security suite which leaves the competition for dust. Remove the A/V side of it though, it's unnecessary unless you're downloading APKs from every Tom Dick & Harry website. |
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