Antivirus Mobile Software
The way we protect our PC, our mobile phones too require protection. There are many ways by which a virus can enter our mobile phone. Firstly, if your computer is infected with virus and we connect the mobile phone it the computer via USB for transferring files, then the virus can enter your mobile phone. And if you have a mobile phone with windows as the operating system, it is a lot easier for the virus to spoil the mobile phone. Then the virus can also enter our phone via Bluetooth. Most often than not, if we keep the Bluetooth activated on our mobile phone, the virus can find its way in our mobile. That’s why we are cautioned against accepting Bluetooth messages from unknown devices.
Not just virus, but we should protect our mobile from spyware and malware too. They are equally harmful. In particular if we do a lot of banking from our phone, then hackers can get access to our credit card numbers and bank account numbers via these malicious softwares. There are many antivirus softwares available on the net. Most of these are quite similar to these we use in our computers. They are as follows:
1. free.avg.com
2. www.mcafee.com
3. www.pandasecurity.com
4. www.sunbeltsoftware.com
5. www.geekstogo.com
Some of these are free but for some you have to shell out. But they are demo versions available too. So you can try them out first before actually buying them.
The only phones that are safe are those that cannot be connected to other devices. The multimedia phones are a lot more venerable. But as they say “With great powers comes great responsibilities”. So in the same way, if you don’t want to lose important data and don’t want the hassles that come along with the virus download, then install one antivirus as soon as you buy a mobile phone.
Prevention is better than cure. Any computer user will tell you this.
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