Sharayah.Arizona
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Greetings to follow DROID users dancedroid Looking forward to learning from all of you. My interest today is about security (Antivirus, etc.) on the Android OS. Any comments?
Hawaiian,
Thank you for your input. I'm glad you feel so confident, however I won't be joining that school of thought. Trends of malware changes (see aforementioned link) and I believe it is just a matter of time. However, this is just my opinion.
The main intent of me joining this forum was to get information about OS security, perhaps not so much on opinions of security. I believe that topic would raise much activity in another topic thread. [/FONT]
Any information on specifics is appreciated, thank you in advance.
Hawaiian,
Thank you for your input. I'm glad you feel so confident, however I won't be joining that school of thought. Trends of malware changes (see aforementioned link) and I believe it is just a matter of time. However, this is just my opinion.
The main intent of me joining this forum was to get information about OS security, perhaps not so much on opinions of security. I believe that topic would raise much activity in another topic thread. [/FONT]
Any information on specifics is appreciated, thank you in advance.
You may find this a little hard to believe but there are probably hundreds of antivirus threads. 99% of them have opinions not facts.
Fact is that if someone wants to launch a virus on android it's not as simple as it would be with windows. The platform that it sits on makes it much more difficult. But nobody can say impossible.
It's my opinion, just like on my iMac, virus protection is not necessary and in fact it's a resource hog and will, in time, cause problems for your phone.