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Recommend Antivirus and Cleaner

Started Mar 27, 2018 | Questions thread
I2K4
I2K4 Senior Member • Posts: 1,441
Re: Recommend Antivirus and Cleaner
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Ordinary advice is you don't need anti-malware if you restrict app downloads to the Google Play Store - mainly the a/v apps just replicate Google's own scanning.  (Notably, all those publicized "infections" so far have come from bad apps, not other attack vectors.)

If, like me, you sideload APKs now and then a malware scanner is a good precaution. Brand loyalty is not warranted - developers regularly change and often bungle or bloat up their basic service with half-baked "features", spoiling protection or resource demands. Currently I'm using Bitdefender, because it gets good lab reviews and uses minimal resources (cloud based) - but that's only so long as those things remain true for it.

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