Jakarta: One of the current technological advances that you can see is the role of smartphones which are increasingly attached to the activities you do every day, including making transactions in financial services or e-commerce, as well as transportation applications.
These services require you to enter a number of private data to be able to use them. Unfortunately, these technological advances are also directly proportional to cyber crime threat targeting the service.
Cybercriminals often carry out their actions in various ways, including hacking or embedding dangerous viruses on the victim’s device. The first thing you might feel when your device is infected with a virus is losing important data and decreasing device performance.
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Meanwhile, Android smartphones are one of the devices that are being targeted by cybercriminals. Here are our recommended antivirus applications to help protect your Android smartphone.
1. Kaspersky Security & VPN
Kaspersky is not a new name in the realm of antivirus, although previously it was better known as a protection application for PCs or laptops. Since the widespread use of smartphones in people’s daily lives, Kaspersky has also released an antivirus for smartphones.
Kaspersky’s antivirus is armed with a number of features, including a web filter feature to filter out dangerous links and sites, features to block calls and SMS, device scanning to anti-theft.
This application is also not too heavy when used and is still able to work thoroughly. The advantage of this application is that it focuses on antivirus and security, so you won’t be able to find unrelated features.
2. Avast Antivirus & Security
Avast Antivirus & Security is developed by Avast Software. For Android devices, this application is equipped with a number of features such as virus scanning, applock, call blocker, and anti-theft protection.
In addition, Avast is also equipped with a booster feature that can make device performance lighter and faster.
3. AVG Antivirus & Security
In addition to eradicating viruses on devices, AVG Antivirus & Security has additional features such as website scanning, WiFi scanner, and protection to protect important data from hacker attacks.
4. McAfee Security: Antivirus VPN
It’s relatively heavy to use, but this application is armed with quite complete features, such as device scanning, anti-theft, anti-spyware, and security locking, as well as an integrated VPN feature.
5. Norton360 Antivirus & Security
Norton claims that Norton360 Antivirus & Security will provide real-time protection to protect personal data on your smartphone.
In addition, Norton also actively detects applications that consume battery power and large amounts of data, dangerous sites and links, and suspicious activity on your smartphone.
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