It is very easy to control the masses with terror. It doesn't matter that what you say doesn't make any sense when several million people think it does. Only a few will be convinced that the terror is unfounded. Actually, the same is what happens in Android with the issue of antivirus. Nothing is as worrying as it seems. The antivirus they are not necessary.
Buying a mobile for 700 euros and having it damaged by a virus is something that one wants to avoid at all costs. That is what leads many people to install an antivirus on their smartphone. They believe that someone can render their smartphone useless forever, or that a virus can install itself on the phone and start spending money. They are popular beliefs that live in the community and that make many doubt about which antivirus to install. Moreover, in many cases, even people who have relatively advanced knowledge in the world of technology, consider installing an antivirus on their Android smartphone. Why is this happening? Are antivirus really worth it? Can it be dangerous to install an antivirus?
History sets precedent
Actually, there is something that leads many to think that they have to install an antivirus on their smartphone. For a long time, operating systems like Windows have required an antivirus. In these cases it was more useful to have an antivirus. Windows is an operating system for computers, with many more possibilities than a mobile operating system, and that made the amount of possible malware much higher. And above all, it complicates the task of monitoring the computer even for someone with advanced knowledge. Even so, there were still users who had computers without antivirus, and all they did was act prudently, avoiding those possible sources of malware.
Although Android is not like that, it is clear that users still have the feeling that antivirus is necessary. And now that they have switched to using a smartphone as their main device, they tend to act in the same way, believing that they have to install an antivirus. The news about Android malware alarms society, and they believe that they have to install an antivirus to avoid this dangerous malware. However, in most cases, this malware cannot affect users' smartphones, or even if it does, it cannot be avoided by antivirus applications.
Does an antivirus work
Some do do something yes. However, most of the antivirus applications out there are unable to detect malicious applications, they simply do a few minor cursory checks. Others focus on the permissions that some applications adopt or the advertising they include. Many times, what they tell us never has to do with whether an application is really dangerous or not. Keep in mind that most of the malware that is available manages to bypass the security of Android. Do we really believe that it can be detected as easily as installing an antivirus application? Antiviruses that really work aren't really useful, and they do very little. The other major part of the applications that are supposedly antivirus, are not really antivirus but antiapps with advertising. And there are those that are complete deceptions and do nothing.
Can an antivirus be a virus?
When there are many users interested in something, there are also people trying to take advantage of it to profit. We have seen applications like Virus Shield, which has become one of the most purchased in the app store, which has finally been discovered to be just a hoax, an application that did absolutely nothing, but charged users 4 euros . How much money have they made by fooling people? All because they have been able to take advantage of users' fear of viruses, a fear that in many cases is totally irrational. And it is not only a question of money, it would not be strange to find an antivirus that is actually a virus.
Is an antivirus necessary?
What someone who is not clear will tell you: Yes. What an Android expert will tell you: No. Android still doesn't have enough security flaws for an antivirus to be necessary. Common sense is much more useful, download applications only from Google Play, and avoid applications that appear to be not well developed. In addition, antivirus would be of little value against applications that were really malicious. But above all, it must be borne in mind that the antivirus that promise everything, are nothing more than falsehoods. In some cases, the goal could be just to sell advertising, but in others we could be paying for the application, or we could even be installing a malicious application. All this without forgetting that an antivirus can consume system resources and slow down the smartphone. Thus, taking all this into account, having an antivirus is not only not safer, but it has many negative aspects.
In what you say you are wrong, I have been an android user for 5 years, of which I have always had anti virus, now ... andoid is a free system, I have had an iPhone in which it was a headache to install an application without the jailbreak Nowadays, viruses or malware are becoming more widespread and for something I take out the flash images, due to the presence of advertising, he thinks that it is not only young people who know how to use the internet who use smartphones, they are also adults, now those people read the permissions As an administrator that you deliver to the application, most only install and much more for data from others, I ask you if it is not good for you to have anti virus that you teach all the old people to do a hard reset to the phone, of the years that it exists andoid just now in 2014, the issue of viruses became widespread, you are going to tell me that in a system that allows you to check bank accounts, make transfers and make payments and thinking that andoid is an intelligent operating system e that allows modifications and transformations of the system that allows to give authorizations, it will not be an easy target for anyone ... I think that this type of news is irresponsible, it is like when one says I do not have anti virus and I format my weight every year , but it is a mean thought because not everyone knows how to do it, now adults are not going to be webiating looking for the configuration or the way to format the phone ... what you said was simply to bring the current to something that is being known, to be different ...
I've been using Android for the same 5 years as you and I've never used antivirus. They are totally unnecessary. I have never been affected by a malware or a virus, remember that Android has the linux kernel, do you know viruses in linux? Greetings.
If I used Linux, although with that sarcasm, it was a bit arrogant, you think that nobody knows Linux, although you think that you are the only one who uses a smartphone, there are millions of people, because you think that Google is just increasing the security level of the play store, that does not show that android has gigantic security holes, do you know how long an application takes to play, less than a day, do you know how long it takes in iTunes, it takes months if an error is reported, if the application is Completely clean it takes even 3 days, you have never had a problem but there are many that have problems ... now that is fine but andoid is no longer linux a long time ago ... now you know when and what is the difficulty to create one application for android ... you know what you download but there are many people who only download because they liked this, but nothing else ..
Two or three weeks ago my smartphone was hacked. What? well, I got a notification to update the wahtsapp and out of ignorance I allowed a software that uses my 3g network to download. when I connected to the internet, when I wanted to search for something in google, a page appeared that said that SPAM had been detected from my ip and therefore it was blocked. I already fixed it, by the way. At that time, I had the Avast antivirus installed. but it did not detect the malware. I had to "wipe" the cell phone to remove it. 😐 Anyway. now I am more cautious when it comes to installing apps and I pay close attention to the notifications that come to me. I don't think antivirus works.