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Having recently moved from iPhone to Android my banking app is now badgering me to instal Kaspersky.
From what I read I understand issues to be entirely from downloading dodgy apps, and I download few new apps so it seems to me to be unnecessary - am I missing something?
Do all you Android gurus feel the need for such an app and if I do get one will it slow down my phone or cause any other issues?
maybe its the Russians...
[i]Kaspersky.[/i]
Yep, an FSB sponsored App is just what everyone should load 😉
I use a product called lookout on my android devices. Yet to be proven to contain spyware and it allows a VPN tunnel to anonymise your browsing etc.
Used android phones for 7 years, never used a security app, never had problem.
anonymise your browsing etc.
I'm pretty relaxed about that.
FSB sponsored App
Not a reader of the techie news but on a quick google I'm left thinking it's either surprising that Barclays should be recommending (/subsidising) the purchase of this, or the story is making a mountain out of a molehill.
ANyway, what alternatives then?
[i] the story is making a mountain out of a molehill[/i]
[url= https://www.theregister.co.uk/2017/10/11/israel_russia_kaspersky/ ]https://www.theregister.co.uk/2017/10/11/israel_russia_kaspersky/[/url]
*looks at Barclays*
Virus checkers on Android are fake apps, they would need to break the security of the Android device to actually work as apps are sandboxed from each other.
Never use such a thing. Kaspersky or McAfee install are usually just to make a few EUR from the app recommending them. I would probably install anything else other than those
Virus checkers on Android are fake apps, they would need to break the security of the Android device to actually work as apps are sandboxed from each other.
Lookout scans pre-install, and scans what's been installed ongoing. It doesn't have to monitor the running app to do this and the apps are only sandboxed while running.
I work for a company that invests about $1B per year in security product development. We don't do a product for Android. To be able to connect my phone to company data, Lookout has to be installed.
That said - if you don't install dodgy apps you're probably fine.
Hmmm, better remove the AVG the paid app I have. Seems to have slowed down my phone a whole lot.
Sounds like Lookout is a recommended option then? I tend to err on the side of not adding more stuff if i can but I'll look that out...
So is the AVG thing on my PC also as useless as it is annoying (I think it slowed down when my IT support people installed it) then?
what banking app badgers you to install third party software?