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8 Antivirus Apps to Keep Your Phone Safe

Help keep your employees' BYOD secure with these eight antivirus apps.

April 9, 2015 TD Staff 1 Comment

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Avast Mobile Security & Antivirus

Avast is a free antivirus app for Android that secured against unwanted phishing, malware, spyware, and malicious viruses like trojans. Virus scanner, virus removal, protector, network meter, app manager, app lock, and even a firewall for rooted phones gives users a number of ways to keep their phones clean. Avast protects against general infections, app vulnerabilities, and Wi-Fi-based threats to the OS.

AVG Antivirus Security

AVG Antivirus protects from harmful viruses, malware, spyware, and text messages to keep your personal data safe. Scan apps, setting, files, and media in real time, lock or wipe your device, kill tasks that slow your device, and monitor usage with this helpful app.

Bitdefender Antivirus

Bitdefender is a powerful and fast solution that uses in-the-cloud scanning technology to arm your device with industry leading virus detection. There is nothing to configure, simply install the app and it’s ready to go. Autopilot automatically scans new apps that are downloaded for viruses. The mobile security has been independently certified to catch more than 99 percent of all viruses.

CM Security Antivirus

Ranked #1 by the AV-Test, CM Security offers an antivirus engine powered by both local and cloud engines. Multilayer protection fixes system vulnerabilities and scans new apps, file systems, and websites to ensure device safety and privacy. The app cleans your phone and boosts ram and CPU, allows for locking of apps and vaults, and scans SD cards thoroughly to detect and delete threats. With 500,000,000 users and 16 years of history in PC and mobile security, CM Security is a great app to keep your phone secure.

Malwarebytes Anti-Malware

Malwarebytes guards your identity and personal data on-the-go. Close security holes, choose what you want to keep private, and make your smartphone smarter. Anti-malware and anti-spyware, privacy manager, security audits, and an application manager ensure that all of your information is safe and clean. Malwarebytes detects and eliminates malware, scans apps for PUPs and malicious code, alerts to malicious links in SMS texts, and stops unauthorized access to your personal data.

McAfee Security & Antivirus

McAfee Mobile Security protects your phone with award winning antitheft, find device, app privacy protection, antivirus, and security features from the Intel Security. The app scans for malicious code from files, SMS, SD card, apps, and downloads. Safe mobile web surfing protects against web threats by blocking access to risky sites from texts, emails, QR codes, and social media. Wi-Fi security alerts you of unsecure Wi-Fi connections. With awards from AV-Comparatives and AV Test, as well as the Info Security Global Excellence Award, McAfee is a decorated security app.

360 Security

With 640 million users, 360 security is an all-in-one speed booster and antivirus app that sees wide use. The app optimizes background apps, memory space, junk files, and battery power while keeping devices safe from virus, malware, vulnerabilities, adware, and trojans. An antivirus engine scans apps and memory card content to protect against viruses.

ESET Mobile Security & Antivirus

ESET security offers proactive anti-theft, anti-phishing to shield personal information, and antivirus with 100 percent detection rate as tested by AV-Test in 2015. The app automatically scans downloaded applications and files and offers on-demand scan to be activated at any time. Quarantine where discovered items reside to stop the spread of infections.

As BYOD becomes a more common practice in businesses, it is important for companies to ensure that data is kept secure as it enters and leaves the building. People want to be able to work from their phone, at the office, on the go, and sitting in bed at night. It leads to more productive and comfortable employees. Productive because they are literally bringing their work home with them when they keep their work on their personal device. Comfortable because they have the flexibility to work as they want, when they want.

So how do we make sure that these devices aren’t corrupted? The same device used for holding confidential content that an employee needs to build a presentation is used for downloading the latest hack and slash 99-cent mobile game, and that poses problems. Apps, e-mails, and even text messages can be used for malicious reasons. Once the phone is compromised, so is the content.

There are ways that individuals can help keep their information secure. Here are eight antivirus applications for Android phones and tablets.

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  1. windows error code 0x8024a105 says

    November 14, 2018 at 7:12 pm

    Antivirus application is very essential for the devices and McAfee, Kaspersky, Norton, Avast are some best antivirus software which provides the best service.

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