Which FREE Firewall and Antivorus are the best to use on a Samsung Galaxy S. Please give reasons that you can confirm as to why your choice is the best.
You would only need a firewall if you deploy world-facing severs on your phone. And there aren't any active Linux viruses, so no need for an anit-virus app. also, each app runs in it's own sandbox so it technically isn't able to affect other apps.
huh?
Unless you have apps on your handset acting as publicly-visible servers and accepting unsolicited requests from outside sources, a firewall is not necessary. Without a server anything that does come knocking on your door will simply get no answer.
I'm sorry, I should have explained that better.huh?
This is a much better explanation. Thank you, SlugUnless you have apps on your handset acting as publicly-visible servers and accepting unsolicited requests from outside sources, a firewall is not necessary. Without a server anything that does come knocking on your door will simply get no answer.
Any app can steal information, consider the recent news about the Dolphin HD browser - tracking and uploading all of the URLs you visit. although it now seems it was unintentional, it did happen. A firewall isn't designed to protect against this because a web browser needs internet permissions. I doubt there is an app around that could have prevented this. The weakest link in any computer system is the user.butbutbut .... what about all those apps out there i read about that are conecting to the internet and steeling my info
Which FREE Firewall and Antivorus are the best to use on a Samsung Galaxy S. Please give reasons that you can confirm as to why your choice is the best.
Although I haven't used it yet, I have heard good things about this app from many people.While I do agree that being careful of the apps you download, I still use one. I use Lookout Premium. Love the remote locate and swipe the internal memory and SD card. Safe browser when using both non mobil and mobil websites. Backup and restore. App Permission notices and phone/app scans.
There are apps that you can install that prevent other apps from getting permissions to parts of the phone that you don't care for it to have. But they all require root access.
LBE Privacy guard is a good one and is probably the best overall. I also use DroidWall to prevent any freshly installed app from getting internet access, although LBE can prevent that as well (but LBE defaults everything to on, which I don't like).
As for malware protection, I don't feel any of the malware protection apps are worth their salt. Now, they also have additional features that may make them worth it (remote data wipe and location services, for example), but I wouldn't use one just because I feel threatened by malware.
While I do agree that being careful of the apps you download, I still use one. I use Lookout Premium. Love the remote locate and swipe the internal memory and SD card. Safe browser when using both non mobil and mobil websites. Backup and restore. App Permission notices and phone/app scans.
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Not all.
There are a few, actually.
Ive been doing the same but you never know....im used to XP Pro n we all know how we need Antiviurs and Firewall w that one lol
You are comparing windows (an old iteration at that) to Linux. Apples to oranges.
Although I haven't used it yet, I have heard good things about this app from many people.
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You are comparing windows (an old iteration at that) to Linux. Apples to oranges.
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