Avast Mobile Security is a feature-rich antivirus for Android devices. Able to protect your device from phishing sites and programs, infected files and SMS killers, Trojans, spyware and adware viruses, annoying phone calls, applications with malicious code, personal data theft and other digital threats.
Equipped with an automatic and remotely-initiated device locking system for theft. It has secure file storage for photos, videos and other types of data. It can create encrypted VPN tunnels for secure traffic exchange and bypassing web resource locks.
Functional Avast Mobile Security
- Embeds the required security modules into the system;
- Scans the system, detects infected processes, forcibly terminates their work and deletes the executive files of such processes;
- Analyzes traffic, detects the transmission of malicious code, promotional data and private information (numbers, bank details, photos, etc.), freezes the exchange of data until further user response;
- It integrates into all applications that process SMS, automatically initiates a reset of processing the contents of an SMS message, if it detects killer commands or overflows the amount of memory installed for storing SMS;
- It creates an isolated partition of disk space for storing photos, videos and other personal files, encrypts the yoke and requests the authorization code when opening;
- It creates a tunneled VPN gateway and encrypts the transmitted data to bypass web resource locks and prevent phishing of traffic;
- Automatically drops incoming calls from blacklisted numbers;
- Corrects the work of the system modules to save battery power;
- Blocks device operation when repeatedly entering SIM-card PINs or file storage incorrectly, entering an incorrect pattern key, using someone else’s fingerprint, or receiving a remote request with a special code.
Antivirus features
- Full anti-virus system, blacklist of numbers and VPN-client - in one bottle;
- Constant updates of the virus signature database;
- Intellectual system of protection against identity theft;
- Automated system to counter the theft of personal information and promotional data;
- Encrypted, PIN-protected file storage;
- Battery saving function;
- The system of countering SMS killers;
- Availability of automated and remotely-initiated anti-theft features.
Disadvantages
- Integrated advertising;
- Requires root;
- Part of the function is paid.
