Antivirus: Why should you protect your smartphones and tablets in addition to your PC?

Protecting your PC against viruses and ransomware is important and we know.On the other hand, we forget to protect your smartphone under Android, and this very personal device interests the pirates!

It is often believed that smartphones are immune to viruses, unlike PCs and this is false.Android smartphones in particular, are more open than the very locked iPhone, and their growing popularity, with more and more models that are both affordable and excellent quality, in fact excellent targets for pirates and cybercriminals, and thisfor a good reason.

Like tablets, these are devices that we use more and more, sometimes even more than our computers, to make purchases, to make bank transactions or to connect to administrative services.Not to mention our whole digital life present on our phones: photos, contacts, social networks ... Difficult to find a better reserve of personal data, especially since some users will bypass the safety of the Play Store to install applications fromother sources.Hence the need to have a complete security series on its mobile devices!

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As we said, the smartphone is a more personal tool than ever.Classic phones contained phone numbers and SMS, which were already precious.The smartphone is undoubtedly the device that we use the most daily.We use it to call and send messages, of course, but also to browse the web, to consult emails and social networks.It is our most practical camera to use, the one we always have on ourselves to capture all the moments of our life.It contains a banking application that is used to make transactions, medical applications even since the health crisis.He knows everything about us: where we are going via GPS, who are our friends ... What interest more than a malicious pirate.

The applications we download are not always safe when we talk about Android.Google works on the safety of the play store and it is the safest source to download applications, but it has already happened that malicious applications pass through the meshes of the net.In addition, an Android smartphone can do without the play store: a simple check box allows you to install applications from alternative sources.And in this case, it is not necessarily easy to know if these sources are reliable or not.It is therefore not impossible to download and install an application which contains a virus, or worse, which is one!

This is not a myth: malicious software and cyber attacks are more and more numerous on the Android system, and while we find very good smartphones at less than 200 euros, the popularity of Android isnot weaken, quite the contrary.And it should be remembered that one of the reasons for the proliferation of viruses on Windows was its great domination on the market.

But iPhones are also vulnerable, sometimes more than Android smartphones.Indeed, the iOS system is not invulnerable.We can notably take the example of the PEGASUS spy software which has easily managed to infiltrate many iPhone, despite the promise of maximum security within the Apple OS.An antivirus on smartphone is therefore necessary, whether on Android or Apple.

Should you also download an antivirus for your tablet?

Between the PC and the smartphone, there is the tablet.And we can ask the same question: should we install an antivirus solution on this device.A priori, one might think that the tablet is less personal than the smartphone: we will use it less to communicate, or to store personal photos.On the other hand, this does not exclude potentially dangerous uses.At home, we often use a tablet to replace a laptop, for example to make purchases or transactions, because it is faster and immediate for this use.It is also a device on which we will put a lot of content on the SD card, and use for activities such as games.And at the system level, Android on tablet benefits from the same benefits and disadvantages as on smartphone: we can be tempted to install games or applications via alternative sources, and we do not pay attention to details like attachmentsemail.Installing an antivirus on smartphone as on tablet is nothing complicated, and this can allow you to have an additional safety net.

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Some tips to protect yourself from viruses on smartphone and tablet

To protect yourself from viruses and threats on Android devices, we can already start by observing good practices.The first is to favor the Google Play Store to download and install its applications.Google's kiosk is not infallible as we have seen, but it is by far the safest source that exists.If you want to go through alternative sources, favor known and renowned services in the same way as the Amazon AppStore.In any case, beware of the sources that allow you to download the file directly.APK of a commercial application.Hacking has often been a very good vector of virus diffusion.

Exactly the same way as on PC, beware of emails and social networks, and especially attached pieces of messages, which can contain a poise file.Fraudulent links must also be avoided, online scams that can affect any user.

And of course, for more serenity, install an antivirus!Avast Mobile Security is part of the Amazon Ultimate offer and it offers all the features for analyzing your applications and protecting your data.

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