![]() ![]() Read our full Lookout Security & Antivirus review. Its active scans are also slow and take on a hit on your phone's performance. The trouble is that Lookout doesn't often submit its app to third-partly lab evaluations, so we don't really know how well Lookout protects against malware. The premium tier charges $30 per year, even though some of its features - malicious website blocking, Wi-Fi network scanning - come free with other Android antivirus apps. An unlimited VPN and a data-breach notification service make the premium price worthwhile.Īt $100 per year, the "premium plus" plan is actually a fairly inexpensive identity-protection service that offers many of the same benefits you'd get from LifeLock or IdentityForce. ![]() The free tier is bare-bones it just scans for malware and locates lost phones. Its ease of use, clean interface and lack of ads explain its continued popularity.īut Lookout's costs can rack up quickly. Lookout Mobile Security, now rebranded as Lookout Security and Antivirus or Lookout Personal, was one of the first Android antivirus apps, and for a long time the best. Read our full Avast Mobile Security review. ![]() Since the stand-alone price for SecureLine is $60 per year, paying an extra $20 on top of the premium Android antivirus tier for unlimited VPN data is not a bad deal. The built-in client for Avast's SecureLine VPN is just a tease, and the only way to use it is to pay for an Ultimate tier. Users of either paid plan also get additional anti-theft features, an app locker and tech support. Those ads go away if you pay for either of Avast Mobile Security's paid tiers, Premium ($2 monthly or $20 yearly) or Ultimate ($7 monthly or $40 yearly). (It's since been removed.) And the free version's ads and constant nags to upgrade are annoying and intrusive. Some of Avast's anti-theft functions didn't work for us, and its call-blocking feature didn't work at all. While Avast's malware protection is good, it's far from perfect. Īvast Mobile Security & Antivirus is one of the most full-featured of the best Android antivirus apps, offering everything from a privacy adviser to a system optimizer to a customizable blacklist. Read our full Norton Mobile Security review. It also checks apps in the Google Play Store for security and privacy risks even before you install them. Norton's killer feature is the unique App Advisor, which checks apps on your device for heavy data usage and unusual behavior. The most expensive plan, Norton 360 Deluxe, $105 per year, is actually part of Norton's antivirus lineup and lets you protect up to five Android, Windows, Mac or iOS devices.Īll of these subscriptions can be paid for right through the Norton app, which has a 14-day free trial period. That's been replaced with a security-only app for one device that costs $15 a year.įor $50 a year, a medium-priced tier called Norton 360 for Mobile adds unlimited VPN service and "dark web" monitoring of your personal information. Norton also killed Norton Mobile Security's free tier, which was the best among all the Android antivirus apps we've tested. Unfortunately, it no longer has anti-theft functions, nor its contacts backups and Link Guard malicious-link blocker. Without showy graphics or actions, it will automatically protect the content you wish to download from emails, web browsing, files imported from a USB, etc.īidDefender offers advanced protection against all kinds of virus and malware, it uses robust search engines certified by ICSA Labs, Virus Bulletin, and CheckMark.Norton Mobile Security, aka Norton 360, offers the best malware protection of any of the Android antivirus apps we tested. The interface and steps to protecting your PC are very easy. That is, this antivirus will maintain your system free from problems, and you won’t see your PC slowdown, which is simply exceptional. If there’s anything that makes BidDefender stand out, it is its effectiveness when it finds and destroys any kind of malware, its large database and analytical system, and, of course, its small influence on the development and performance of your PC. In fact, many users prefer this solution because it doesn’t include some of the options included in the other two that are hardly ever used but affect the performance of both the antivirus and the computer. BitDefender Antivirus Plus is the smaller brother of the saga of three solutions offered by BitDefender, but this doesn’t make it any less powerful or useful. You’re probably familiar with one of the variants to this giant in the field of antivirus software. Today, with a multitude of computers connected to the Internet, tons of friends sending emails, some of them without purpose and loaded with unreliable content, the first thing that you should do is install a good antivirus on your PC, and BitDefender Antivirus 2012 can be a great solution. ![]()
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