If you own an android device, now is a good time to make use of an antivirus for android app, because malware threats have greatly increased. But sadly, a recent study indicates that the detection rates of several security apps can best be described as miserable. Presented below are the apps that did very well.
Forty one android virus scanners were inspected by AV-Test against six hundred and eighteen kinds of malware. Almost seventy five percent of these scanners detected below sixty five percent of those kinds of malware, meaning that they are not suitable or unreliable as far as providing you with mobile security is concerned. The company wrote.
The top seven antivirus for android apps are
Lookout,
Zoner,
Kaspersky,
Ikarus,
F-Secure,
Dr. Web,
and Avast.
According to the report, if you make use of one of these applications, then you can put your mind at ease regarding your malware security.
If your favorite app performed poorly on the report written by AV-Test, that is not an indication that it is totally useless as long as it has features such as data backup, wipe or remote lock, and there are difficulties in conducting tests for malware threats that are active. (The AV-Test made use of just the most popular malware families found out between August and Dec. last year.
However, if you are thinking of which antivirus for android app is best for your device, this autonomous test provides some direction.
