Which Antivirus has the best detection ratio for Android?

[LukeLovesSecurity]

I'm trying to get the best protection I can for my phone. I wanted to see what people think has the best detection rate.

 

[ForgottenSeer 58943]

Norton Mobile is very strong in my testing. If not the strongest overall. Also their supplement to the Play Protect system augments that even before the app is downloaded. I dislike Norton personally, but find the mobile version quite stellar!

AhnLabs mobile is very good and has extremely good detection rates as well. My second choice. Any of the others I never cared about.

 

[Deleted member 65228]

I'd go with Avast because I especially like their Anti-Theft.

 

[LahiruRajinda]

AhnV3

 

[davetenay]

https://www.av-test.org/en/antivirus/mobile-devices/

 

[Sunshine-boy]

I don't have an android phone BUT I think you don't need any antivirus on android! but I like to have Sophos on it because Sophos software doesn't contain adware or anything bad... it's only AV!about avast and 360 im 100% sure they will show you ads!dr.web is also good(but not free!)

 

[davetenay]

I don't have an android phone BUT I think you don't need any antivirus on android! but I like to have Sophos on it because Sophos software doesn't contain adware or anything bad... it's only AV!about avast and 360 im 100% sure it will show you ads!dr.web is also good!

Yes, Avast free and especially 360 show crazy many ads.

 

[klaken]

I occupy comodo mobile .. No advertising is light and simple ...
I have detected a good number of applications with a lot of advertising and malware.

 

[ForgottenSeer 58943]

I don't have an android phone BUT I think you don't need any antivirus on android! but I like to have Sophos on it because Sophos software doesn't contain adware or anything bad... it's only AV!about avast and 360 im 100% sure they will show you ads!dr.web is also good(but not free!)

I forgot about Sophos, that's my third choice. I helped test it early on and really liked their direction with it. I also like Sophos TFA app, very nice and NO spy junk, light telemetry.

 

[Lightning_Brian]

ZAM is great - I have been using this on my phone for a long time as an anti-malware. Norton Mobile would be my other choice too @ForgottenSeer 58943 !

In the past I have used ESET and Avast free. Both of these are good, but I will have to agree with @davetenay that there are lots of ads! Bitdefender makes a free application too. I don't know about the detection rates, but that may be worth looking into. My two top would be ZAM for anti-malware and Norton Mobile for anti-virus or overall protection.

 

[Jack Sparoow]

AhnlabV3, white Armor, sophos, and McAfee.

 

[ForgottenSeer 58943]

AhnlabV3, white Armor, sophos, and McAfee.

AhnV3 is 99 cents a month now by the way, they dropped it down from 1.49% a month. Cheap, effective protection. Also Ahn3 shows you hidden permissions on service apps, not the visible ones everything else shows you.

 

[LukeLovesSecurity]

I plan to download from unverified sources, so I need an antivirus to verify it is safe. Which antivirus has the best detection ratio? Tom's Hardware claims Bitdefender has the best detection rate, but I want to hear it from MT.

 

[Evjl's Rain]

It's not easy to tell because it's hard to test them

I did a small research on MRG, AVC and AV-test, BD and Kaspersky are the best. BD did a bit better than Kaspersky in AVC's test and equal in the others

I personally pick BD due to their experience in android protection

 

[CMLew]

I plan to download from unverified sources, so I need an antivirus to verify it is safe. Which antivirus has the best detection ratio? Tom's Hardware claims Bitdefender has the best detection rate, but I want to hear it from MT.

First of all, why are you attempting to download something from an unverified source? You already knew that is a significant risk to your android device even with or without an antivirus.
Take that out from the equation, heck you don't even need an antivirus on Android.

 

[GonzitoVir]

I don't know but I frequently hear that Dr.Web engineers catch new relevant malware from time to time.

 

[Sunshine-boy]

Dr.web!

 

[LukeLovesSecurity]

First of all, why are you attempting to download something from an unverified source? You already knew that is a significant risk to your android device even with or without an antivirus.
Take that out from the equation, heck you don't even need an antivirus on Android.

I plan to avoid Google, so I just want to make sure the apps I'm getting from F-Droid and XDA are safe.

 

[Faybert]

G Data

 

[ForgottenSeer 67480]

Emsisoft is always THE BEST.