With series of emails from users requesting for a blog post that would consist of tips to help secure android smart phones from security issues, TechAtLast is back with list of best android antivirus for your android smartphones. If you want to secure your device, having any of these android antivirus installed would help secure its files and important data.
Android users love to use the internet to surf and download apps, but these activities in turn invite viruses and malwares in Android gadgets. Since Android has an open-source nature, the probability of getting it affected by viruses and malwares. The problem of viruses has become the run-of-the-mill in all Android devices, since a comprehensive range of applications are coming from developers around the world.
Then the problem of getting under the Google radar to get approved in the Google Play store. There are also several resources where you can download paid apps for free, which sometimes are stuffed with malicious codes intends to steal your personal information. The virus affects the speed of the device and makes it laborious to use.
Nevertheless the solution to the problem of viruses in Android devices is the use of an appropriate antivirus app.
Best Android Antivirus Apps
There are many antivirus apps available to use on Android like AVG Antivirus, Lookout Security, Avast! Mobile Security, Dr. Web Anti-virus Light, Zoner Antivirus etc. Let’s mention them one by one.
AVG antivirus
AVG Antivirus is a well known antivirus for PC and is the best tool to maximize the performance of your android handset as well.
AVG antivirus is a complete antivirus suite that keeps away not only thwarting viruses but also boosts the efficiency of your android. It scans the installed apps, as well as the new apps and thus provides a real time protection to your Android smartphone or tablet.
The basic version is free available for free, while paid version cost you money. When installed AVG automatically scans your installed apps to see if you have malware in your device, then it switches to real time protection mode so that any new apps are scanned straight after installation and your device becomes clean.
Lookout Security
Lookout Security & Antivirus protects phones without too much draining of battery life. It is a very important app for Android. Lookout offers real time protection which scans all newly installed apps and also makes an initial scan post-installation, to make sure that there are no nasty apps installed.
Apart from Antivirus protection, Lookout also offers a free “Find My Phone” service which helps in searching a lost or stolen phone on a Google map (if the device has GPS).
It can remotely instruct the device to sound a loud alarm, even if your phone or tablet is on silent. By using the mylookout.com website you can locate your phone from any web browser. Lookout can detect 79.6% of the malware thrown at it.
Avast
Avast ! offers a commodious range of security tools including antivirus, a privacy advisor, a web shield –that scans each URL and warns you if it’s a known malware-infected URL– an app manager, and provides a plenty of anti-theft alternatives, which include the proficiency to control your phone via SMS and execute actions like a history wipe, phone lock, and siren activation.
Avast! will automatically scan the existing apps for any malware and then switch to real-time protection mode. It is the best antivirus software available today for Android and is completely free. All the functions like privacy advisor and web shield are included in the free version.
It also safeguards your personal data with infected URL alerts and also provide an automatic virus scan. It also stops hackers with firewall (but this only works on rooted Android phone).
Dr. Web Antivirus
Dr. Web Anti-virus Light is a well-known anti-virus from Russian vendor Doctor Web. It safeguards your costly android phones from malwares and viruses. It also provides protection against spam. This app does not affect Operating System efficiency and takes care that the battery life is not reduced.
When you initially install Dr. Web, it will not perform an automatic scan of previously installed apps; also it won’t automatically switch on real time protection. Nevertheless, once you manually update the virus database and enable the Spider Guard, it behaves much like AVG and Lookout.
Zoner antivirus
Zoner Antivirus for Android automatically scans your device for viruses when it first runs and then moves into a real time protection mode. It is also a security set that contains theft protection allowing you to remotely control and locate your devices through SMS messages. It can alert you and notify you if the device has been stolen and the SIM switched. It also provides options to scan data files on your SD card and a procedure to filter calls and messages from a user-created blacklist. You can send encrypted messages to your friends (if they have Zoner AntiVirus) installed, this is done by encrypting and decrypting of message using the same password.
What’s your opinion about these android antivirus apps? Do you have a special app installed on your android phone with good security capabilities which you would like to share with us here? Please drop all of them in the comment section below.
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Nice list, for me its avast. Great app.
Nice to hear that.
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on this topic thanks for sharing with us.Thank you
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Been using AVG free and it slowed down my phone. So I removed it. I just make sure that everything I install is from Google Play market and from trusted developers only.
Yea bro, You have got to be careful. Try other antivirus on Google Play which works well with your device. You know each software has its own specification.
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Thanks for sharing light on this topic.According to me Avast anti virus is the best for Android smart phones and the best thing about this software is that it does not slow down the processor unlike AVG.Also there are other anti virus software available but by far Avast is the best.
Thanks Terry for your points
It is very important to have good security measures for your Android smart phone.There are many anti virus protection apps available online and they can be quite useful.AVG anti virus is quite good and it has a pretty cool defense mechanism.Also there are many other security apps which also provide some excellent defense mechanisms.
Hi Alex, welcome here….
Security is the most important thing to consider for your Android smart phone.AVG is quite good but I have noticed that my phone becomes quite slow and it hangs quite a lot of time.I have also used Avast and i found it pretty cool, and better than AVG.Also there is no slow down in performance.
Hi James, thanks for voicing your mind over insecurity and ways to make our phones secure. You welcome here man
Thanks for sharing the post. Security is most needed nowadays for all the devices. Smartphones or say android phones usually with inbuilt applications for anti virus purposes. However, if not, we all can take help from your post and learn about it. Please keep sharing such good posts.
Most apps that are just “malware detection” will fail in today’s market. Most of them need to provide diagnostic capabilities as well. To hash all your installed apps and ask a server somewhere if that particular SHA1 is “malware” wouldn’t do very well as a realistic product.
Thanks for sharing your view
Thanks for the information, it is cool hearing about Vipre Mobile Security, it adds up to the list of the Best Android Antivirus for our smartphones.
You are welcome.
Even though I’m using iOS on my iPod Touch, but this article is pretty useful. In my opinion, Android is slowly entering the same fate as Windows, due to its popularity and its openness. iOS, as far as I can tell, is very secure, unless if it is jailbroken, but if so, chances of getting infected is still low.
Trust Apple, they always work towards providing a first class product to customers. Thanks for coming in here.
Until long, security was only needed to we human beings. However, nowadays it is required by the laptops, computers, and smartphones as well. We do need to pay that extra bit for their security but is worth it. This saves our gadgets from unnecesary and harmful viruses. This is a smart move.
Yea. Security issue is becoming alarming, you must make sure you get secured at all cost. Thanks for coming.
I am using Norton antivirus in my phone and I think it is good to destroy malware or viruses that attack Android. But the nice post and list of antivirus.
You are welcome
“Avast” is the best antivirus for PC as well as Android. I prefer it most because it’s required minimum space and has good user interface.
Avast is great, but sometimes behave naughty, not lenient to any file at all. Thanks for sharing
thanks for sharing such an effective and informative article it will be helpful in solving security issues.AVG gives good security protection but i found it slow and resources heavy on Windows XP.
Yea. You may try out avast, but its too rigid in its function, though very good.
How about Vipre Mobile Security? I think that the antivirus is quite good and effective way to destroy malware or viruses that attack Android. For additional course not to forget Vipre Mobile Security. Nice list of antivirus, thanks for sharing.
Hi Zvi,
Thanks for the recommendation, it is cool hearing about Vipre Mobile Security, it adds up to the list of the Best Android Antivirus for our smartphones. Maybe we shall add it to any upcoming articles on this topic
I use Avg on my phone and it works superb.
What do you use and is it better than avg?
Great!
But I used Kaspersky
You forgot to include Webroot SecureAnywhere Mobile for Android Not only does the free version contain protection from threats, but it also uses very little memory, updates and scans in the background, and also includes many features in the free version like Secure Web Browsing, Device Locate, Device Scream, Device Lock, Call & SMS blocking. You can download it from the Google Play Market.
Hey Jack,
I will look into this and check what we are going to do about it or could you please provide the right download link for it below so that users can easily use your guide here to download. Thanks for your support
Hi Olawale, nice article. While using any AV on mobile ultimately will slow it down, so I tried all these solutions but the one i found used the least resources on my android device was AVAST.
I am surprised to hear this but it is not a new thing but thanks for your comment
Wow. I’m glad that you liked my blog post. I hope it will help Android users to thwart different threats they encounter in everyday life.
Hey Kinjal, thanks for taking your time to respond to your article on TechAtlast. Hoping to see you replying to readers’s comments soon.