Which app is the best for malware, locking your lost phone, and locating remotely? Please feel free to explain any point you want. I've been looking at AVG or LOOKOUT
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I use Avast... Android has remote wipe and locate a lost or stolen device built in... Setting> security> device administrator> Android device manager... Check mark Android device manager to activate it... Then all you got to do to see if everything is working, is Google search Android device manager, it should be the first link...
Here a YouTube video...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d8z4tPNjgsk&feature=youtube_gdata_player
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Google search "Android Device Manager" from your computer...
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I've been using Avast for a while on stock sgs3 rom, but it was slowing my phone, so I uninstalled it. Apart from that it seems good.
I you have a rooted phone, give SecDroid a try too.
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wheres my droid is probably the best lost droid app and netqin the best antivirus which also has a lost phone app in it as well.
I installed lookout. I have premium somehow through a tmobile phone I had. So I deleted those 2 and added my 2 new g2's. It works nice, actually better than the iPhone app
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Avast Would Do.
Give It A Try.
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I use the Belarc Security Advisor which tells us about known exploits for our android version and installed apps. It also makes suggestions. The database has over 300 vulnerability entries!
Lookout sucked my battery dry. Thanks to suggestion on here tried BitDefender. They have there services broke down into separate apps, so you can actually as Lily just just as install what you want. GPS,works like I want it to. Great App
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Well, I use BitDefender too. It found 3 malware apps installed in my phone during the first scan. I'll stick with it
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What is a recommended anti-virus for Android smartphones, specifically for HTC?
Thanks
None, you don't need one. Anti virus apps are superfluous and just unnecessary...
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I like avast mobile not for anti virus but anti theft features.
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I'm a systems admin myself and I've never believed in anti virus apparently on my phone either if you know what's going on in your phone you shouldn't need one I don't even use one on my personal computer
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Don't get one. Just be cautious on what you download and install.
evo4g with strikeICS.
Same here.. I don't believe in anti-viruses on my computer (both windows and ubuntu) and neither for my android phone. Just don't visit certain virus infested websites and you should be ok..
I use eset on my pc so i know how those guys work. I recommend you their mobile av, you can always start your 30 daya free trial and see for yourself.
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you can try avg or kasper
Av are unnecessary. But look out and avast are good antivirus.
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haker307 said:
I like avast mobile not for anti virus but anti theft features.
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If you're rooted it can do a lil more.
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I think the avast anti theft is brilliant, have to install the antivirus first though, which I deleted as don't use them, just be cautious what you install
i'm using kaspersky mobile security.. well, the anti virus might not necessary for some individual, but it has other useful features included such as track devices / block unwanted sms / phone call.. try visit KAV website and read about it
avast is OK if you are rooted you can use the firewall that should be more than you need
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No AV
supercobaltss said:
I'm a systems admin myself and I've never believed in anti virus apparently on my phone either if you know what's going on in your phone you shouldn't need one I don't even use one on my personal computer
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Me too, as a computer tech is has been my experience that antiviruses are overrated and get depended upon too much.
Still, most people are probably better off with some kind of protections.....especially the facebookers.
I have put Avast on a lot of customer's computers and used it at times myself. It seems about as good as any.
Lookout seems to be quite good
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I've been happy with lookout (probably because that's what came on my phone originally). I don't really care about the antivirus, I just like the anti-theft features. You can wipe the phone, make it play a siren noise, or just check it's GPS location on their website.
Hmm.. do using antivirus slows the system down??? And how do we know f something is malicious without installing an antivirus??
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If you're rooted it can do a lil more.
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Yep I'm rooted
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You don't need one
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i use avg antivirus and it works perfect but i found no virus sice one year. work viruses on Android??
Hi everyone.
I'm on clean rom 4.5 best rom ever!
I need to use the bank of America Merchant app. But as soon as I lunch the app it says "this app won't work on rooted phone", and it kicks me out of the app. Is there any way to make the app to think that I'm not rooted?
Thank you. I
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Wow, seriously? Mine doesn't give an error message but crashes when trying to photograph a check. Actually causes the phone to reboot.
On Trickdroid 8.1 Rom
EDIT: The problem was due to an incompatible kernel upgrade that I did. After downgrading to the previous kernel, the app and camera work fine.
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I'm using same ROM (ClearROM 4.5); after reading your post i tried it and so far I can login and look at accounts; I haven't tried any check deposits but I'm really not sure why you have this weird message.
I'm trying to use mobile pay to charge my customers credit card.
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I am running cr 4.5 and haven't had any issues with boa app. Deposited checks and all.
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mbiterman said:
Hi everyone.
I'm on clean rom 4.5 best rom ever!
I need to use the bank of America Merchant app. But as soon as I lunch the app it says "this app won't work on rooted phone", and it kicks me out of the app. Is there any way to make the app to think that I'm not rooted?
Thank you. I
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have you tried to rename the superuser app to something else? that's the workaround for the time warner live tv app. maybe it will work for bofa also
kind of late to the game but any luck with this? at&t note 2 running cleanrom as well.
Does anyone know how to make an application that will not allow Facebook to be installed? I might be interested in purchasing an application like this or making 1
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If you don't want a particular app then don't install it. There's probably no way to block installation of a given app.
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gregcapps said:
If you don't want a particular app then don't install it. There's probably no way to block installation of a given app.
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What he said. Is there a particular reason you want to block the installation of Facebook?
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Though if you had a vendetta (and a rooted phone), you could always just put a Facebook catch-all into your hosts file to black-hole attempts to reach them. Wouldn't stop the app, would stop it from ever actually working and any website connecting there.
I think you would need to sign up for a MDM service. There a few of them out there and they should be able to either block apps from being installed or automatically uninstall it if it gets installed.
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Haha sorry I was just kidding but also wondering. Yeah I know how to install apps or not. I was thinking of an app that you can download and then when you did want to download facebook it wouldn't let you. Its really just a joke brotherhood. I don't have a Facebook problem but I see one developing lol.
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why would you need that?
Should I be worried?
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Where did you get the apk from?
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Should I be worried?
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I've never heard of this, if you received the apk from the play store it is safe, if you downloaded from another URL it probably has malware injected.
I got the apk from the app store. It's a strange one. I just submitted to avast for verification.
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I got the apk from the app store. It's a strange one. I just submitted to avast for verification.
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That is really strange. I just copied the .apk from my device and ran a scan on it on my Windows machine with ESET. ESET found every part of it to be clean, so then I moved the file to my Linux machine and checked it with ClamAV, which also showed it as clean. Odd.
You took one step ahead of me and submitted it to avast. I'd love to see what it comes back as.
It was only after a recent avast update. It flagged a couple of apps including Google currents and music as issues but everything had been downloaded or updated from the play store. I'm aware of downloading from unknown sources and the possibility of dodgy apps on the play store but I'm sure I didn't dl anything bad.
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Avast issue in this case, contact them
For the past week or so when I open the app I get redirected to the google store. I have to close the store and reopen XDA app. Anyone else experienced this?
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This has been happening to me as well.. only it will not only open the store but also my browser and then i have to hit the back button like 5 times to get back to where i can open xda again.. then half the time it does it again.
I decided that to get rid of the ads i would just get the premium versio . So what.. it was only a $1.50... come to find out the premium version is nothi g like the free version. I get some extra widgets to put on the home screen but i cant even change the notification sound..
I just wanted the free app without being redirected 5 different places due to ads.. ?
Thanks for your response, not a good thing but at least I'm not the only one. Maybe I'll go back to using the browser instead of the app. It just happened again, first it open my browser then went to play store. Closed play store and opened app, then it worked.
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I too have noticed this happening over just the past few days.
It is super annoying but it's nice to know I'm not the only one having the problems.
#free xda app reaches rampancy
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Happy days, as of yesterday app stopped redirecting.
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Nope redirected again today.
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Yeah, this not only happens with the xda app but with a lot of websites too. It's getting very old.
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I have also been having this issue. Does anyone know whether this is intentional behavior or perhaps some setting I unwittingly made?
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justingriff said:
I have also been having this issue. Does anyone know whether this is intentional behavior or perhaps some setting I unwittingly made?
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It's nothing you've done. I'm uninstalling this app and leaving negative feedback. It used to be a good app, and I've used it for a few years now, but I'm done with the redirections.
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Good idea, uninstalling it also.
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Uninstalled the app, now using chrome browser I still get redirected, be.