Last Updated on April 13, 2024 by freewarespace
Android operating system environment is very popular. According to study there is 70.16% of android users and apple operating system has 29.14%, This means that there are huge numbers of people all around the world using android operating system. This means hackers can attack this operating system due to large number of people using it. Google Play Store has its own antivirus in the name of Google Play Protect which automatically scans installed apps which are installed from play store and it has also provision to scan installed apps from application environment other than Google Play Store.
More than 2.5 billion monthly users from all across 190 plus countries uses Google Play application environment. It is estimated that almost more than 95 percentages that uses Google Play should have been using Google Play Protect the security environment from Google. According to Data Security Council of India (DSCI) 39 percentages of android users have malwares or Trojans or other forms of adware installed on android systems. This means need for android security is a must for all devices be it in the form of Google Play Protect or in the form of Samsung phones through MacAfee antivirus to scan application a bit similar to Google Play Protect.
Out of these android attacks the majority of it deals with risk tools, third party client apps of popular messaging apps such as whatsapp, telegram and other popular channels. Banking apps Trojans can also be found in large numbers and it is dangerous as most of banking transactions occur from mobile devices. That is why it is important security tools installed on android system. Out of all the antivirus installed on system Norton antivirus 360 , bitdefender, macafee antivirus performs 100 percentages so far.
If you have android 13 on Samsung Galaxy devices then you will have already two antivirus installed such as Google Play Protect, and MacAfee antivirus installed and then you go for third party antivirus then you will have third antivirus which can slow down android operating system. With the advent of android 13 in Samsung Galaxy devices provides option to disable MacAfee antivirus in Samsung Galaxy devices but if you have android 12 then there is no option to disable MacAfee antivirus from Samsung Galaxy devices.
If you have android 13 installed on yours devices then you can have the option to disable Samsung antivirus or you can disable Google Play Protect in order to remove two antiviruses simultaneously. In this way yours phone becomes faster and it is a thumb rule that there should not be two antiviruses on the same devices just like we do not have two antiviruses on windows computer. Many android experts advocate that there should not be any additional antivirus or third party tools needed for android operating system. So, there is always two opinions about using third party antivirus.
If you are using apps from Google Play Store then all the android apps which reside within, are all being scanned and sandboxed so that double protection stays in the cloud within Google servers so that there would be no presence of viruses inside android operating system. In this way if you install apps only from play store then it is for sure is being controlled and scanned by Google even while you use android and you will not find any delay in yours android operating system at the same time. You should not download and install apk files which are android apps files from any third party vendors or third party websites as these may contain any harmful viruses or Trojans.
Android is an open source operating system which allows users to use third party apps even if they are not from Google Play Store. It is important to keep up straight formulae that no other third party apps should not be installed on yours android devices. If you are Samsung users then you probably had Samsung know security which can encrypt all of yours data and there is absolutely no chance of entry of Trojans into yours device at any point of time. In this way, even while online and offline yours data remains secure and in this way, your can keep yours files secure and intact.
It is important to back up yours android devices regularly. Google automatically back up yours android devices on regular intervals and also if you have Samsung devices then you will have Samsung smart switch should be installed on both android devices as well as on computer. With smartswitch on android you can back up yours android data within Samsung phones on its SD cards. Through, smart switch installed on windows 7 and above computers you can connect yours smart phone with windows computer with data cable and then transfer data through smart switch windows apps.
Samsung Knox provides extreme security environment for users. It stops viruses and Trojans from interfering with yours devices. There are almost more than 3 billion active android users. Most of times android devices connect with high speed internet. This means path of moving of viruses from one source to that of the other chances are on higher side. Many android phones are not patched or their support from original equipment manufacturer expired. For this an excellent android security environment in terms of good antivirus is must if you use yours phone for the purpose of banking transactions.
Another important security parameter can be spoofing of phone numbers and creating a scam call and the user will find it receiving from known companies which are actually not. It is important to use a good antivirus program inside android smart phones so that they can recognise and stop these scammers from interfering with yours financial apps. It is a major problem and if not used properly then yours financial health can be in very dangerous situation. It is important to go for proper awareness about scam and spam calls as they can be very dangerous at some point of time as most of times whole of yours financial data reside inside android phones.
It is important for android users to have much educated about android security and their effects and causes so that users should be going for extreme security measures so that ultimately security of android phone is more desirable. Many a times, you can feel that suddenly yours phone is draining battery fast and these can be due to presence of malwares which needs heavy resources, and that can drain yours battery so fast. So, it is important to install apps from any third party websites, and also when allow any third party apps, then consider carefully allowing different permissions inside android phones.
Even if you gave the permissions still there are plenty of times when from settings you can go for permissions and there revoke permissions from it when you feel that such apps are using higher battery resources. In android 13 also you can see battery usages of apps and those apps which is using higher battery resources if not needed then you can uninstall those apps or if not using app for long time or using it rarely, then you can slated those apps to deep sleep mode. So that when those apps are not being actively used then those apps can go to the state of deep sleep which means that app is there with yours phone but not active so that it will stay in a stealth mode.
Samsung android phones with android 13 does provide automated stealth mode when apps are not being used for a specific time frame and with stealth mode of apps or in deep sleep mode and in this way you can manage your phone’s battery resources for betterment of yours android battery health. So, for android all of these security parameters need to be taken care of and actively knowing all of these about constantly updating security awareness, and awareness about android security and all of these needs to be taken care of properly and in a correct manner so that yours smart phone needs to be preserved for betterment of android user experiences,
