With all the hacker and virus stories you hear around, unfortunately almost always true, it is normal to be concerned about the security of your personal data on your computer and, above all, on your smartphone. By now a smartphone really collects our whole life made up of friends, phone numbers, passwords, financial information, agendas, addresses and more.
Losing a phone or seeing it unusable due to a virus or knowing that because of some strange bug someone can spy on our conversations can create some justified anxiety that would be better limited to the minimum.
On Android phones, since they are more vulnerable to security problems (also because they are less limiting and limited than an iPhone), there are some security settings to be configured and there are some applications that can create a shield and protection against any type of hacker attack, of spies, of malware or various bugs.
On the essential security options for Android to activate I have already written, now we see instead the best security applications by limiting the number to 5 which should give 360-degree protection of the phone and which are also among the most popular in the store.
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1) Malwarebytes antimalware
This is one of the most popular applications ever, the only antivirus-type app for Android that is worth installing.
Using this application, it is possible to scan all applications and memory to verify that no malware or someone who steals data or spies on activities is installed.
2) 360 Security is probably the most effective antivirus app for Android, with real-time protection like that of the computer, which protects against all types of known and unknown malware.
In this application, described in a detailed article, a locator, a tool to protect apps with a password and an unwanted call filter are also included.
3) Permission Manager is one of the apps to check the permissions and permissions on Android that applications ask the user to use them.
The app allows you to manage permissions properly and protect data that may leak out and end up in some marketing and advertising company.
This app is superfluous in Android 6.
4) AppLock is an app specialized in providing password protection to applications that you don't want someone to open and spy on when we leave the phone unattended, at home, at work or when we go to dinner with friends.
So to prevent someone from reading our Whatsapp, Facebook or the photo gallery, you can create a very effective password protection.
With this app installed, you can lend your phone to someone without fear of seeing private things.
5) Avast Mobile Security is the mobile version of one of the most popular antivirus for PC, also available for Android for the security of the phone from viruses and data stealing applications.
Other security apps are listed in the antivirus guide for Android
For those who are really paranoid then we have seen, in another article, the apps to chat and send encrypted messages in such a protected way that even for the best hacker it would be impossible to spy on conversations.
