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<blockquote data-quote="Marko :)" data-source="post: 1093949" data-attributes="member: 39702">People really underestimate Google&#039;s Safe Browsing protection. It&#039;s used by all major browsers and quickly discovers new phishing and malicious websites. It just needs to be enabled in browser&#039;s settings in case you disabled it before (it&#039;s enabled by default).Also, user can set up Quad9 DNS for additional protection on network-level. Or use AdGuard Public DNS which also blocks ads.There really isn&#039;t a need to install any app to be protected on Android. Even Google Messages app notifies you when you get suspicious message and warns you about it. Google Phone app, on the other hand, warns you and block all those scam phone calls.There&#039;s a reason why we don&#039;t see many Android devices infected any more. Google realized that Android as a platform was vulnerable to malware like Windows was, so they had no other option then to step up in security game. They done that by limiting what apps can do without user&#039;s permission and disallowed apps to integrate further into the OS itself.In reality, all these antivirus apps on Google Play have one purpose and that&#039;s to up sell you products you don&#039;t really need. Install one and you&#039;ll see bunch of &quot;inactive&quot; protection modules and you&#039;ll get notifications to subscribe for more. And all of that at the cost of battery life. The less number of apps you have installed, the better.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Marko :), post: 1093949, member: 39702"] People really underestimate Google's Safe Browsing protection. It's used by all major browsers and quickly discovers new phishing and malicious websites. It just needs to be enabled in browser's settings in case you disabled it before (it's enabled by default). Also, user can set up Quad9 DNS for additional protection on network-level. Or use AdGuard Public DNS which also blocks ads. There really isn't a need to install any app to be protected on Android. Even Google Messages app notifies you when you get suspicious message and warns you about it. Google Phone app, on the other hand, warns you and block all those scam phone calls. There's a reason why we don't see many Android devices infected any more. Google realized that Android as a platform was vulnerable to malware like Windows was, so they had no other option then to step up in security game. They done that by limiting what apps can do without user's permission and disallowed apps to integrate further into the OS itself. In reality, all these antivirus apps on Google Play have one purpose and that's to up sell you products you don't really need. Install one and you'll see bunch of "inactive" protection modules and you'll get notifications to subscribe for more. And all of that at the cost of battery life. The less number of apps you have installed, the better. [/QUOTE]

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