Android detection rates for 11 security applications

Yes, definitely. We have a very aggressive roadmap planned for the mobile platform and detection is of the utmost importance as, convenience features aside, we're still primarily a security vendor. I'm having our mobile research team reach out to the testers to get a picture of why the threats were missed so that we can prevent it in the future.

Thanks!

 

Great!

Ziaul

 

Sounds good Joe! Thanks for your response. Not to worry, I'm still running it on my phone!

Cheers!

 

UPDATE - I've just added: Added BluePoint, BullGuard, F-Secure, IKARUS, Kaspersky to test results.

 

Hi Pykko,
Nice to see Kaspersky doing well.

By the way Pykko, what was the impact on the battery life with Kaspersky installed?

Thanks,
Ziaul

 

Any chance to test Rising free and Avast beta? I can't find an Avast link but here's one for Rising-
http://www.rising-global.com/Download/mob-download.html

 

How is IKARUS as far as being lightweight and does it impact battery life?

Cheers!

 

IKARUS seemed prety light on my test phone, but it takes 4-5 days of usage to give some adequate oppinions on that.

 

Thanks I may give it a try. I agree with the testing. What would you say gave the best protection and battery life?

Cheers for this!

 

Pykko what about Kaspersky?

Thanks,
Ziaul

 

Kaspersky was installed for a short period of time, I can't tell you, sorry

 

I would go for NetQin or BitDefender, both free and very effective.

I should mention BitDefender doesn't protect without an active internet connection. They take all the definitions from the cloud.

 

No problem, but again thank you for testing the products.

Cheers!
Ziaul

 

Thank you! Will give NetQin a shot.

Cheers for all of your efforts!

 

@pykko

Any figures/quantitative results for use of resources/battery life for the products?

Using a high end smart-phone here and I have not seen any mobile AV suck up resources except Lookout. Even Dr Web and Vipre ran with light footprints on this Galaxy S2.

Since most smart phones need their battery charging daily, usage by AVs seem negligible compared to other uses such as using GPS, streaming videos and playing Games etc.

 

BitDefender beta finished; new install now a 3 month-trial version; https://market.android.com/details?id=com.bitdefender.security&feature=search_result

After which I assume a payment is required.

 

Is anyone using Zoner AV? I find this product very good. Seems light and dosen't kill the battery. Running it on a Samsung Galaxy. Not sure how good the protection is.

Ice

 

@Blackcat
The Samsung S2 depletes resources faster than a speeding bullet.
Pykko's testing (which I highly appreciate) shows me that what I was using (AVG Pro) offers no protection .

So I am looking at Netqin or DR Web.
Based on our experience with Dr Web, would you be kind enough to give me your overall impressions while using Dr Web?

Thanks
Cheers

 

I've been using it for a couple months. It's never caused any problems for me. Prior to Zoner I used Webroot and Dr.Web.

 

Same here

 

Thanks for adding BluePoint, quite disappointing though...
BTW, can you also add GuardX and Antivirus Free?
Thank you!

 

Interesting results

 

I'll try to add them to my test soon.

 

Well, I didn't use these security apps long enough to provide good battery status measurements, but I can say for sure Dr.Web and Lookout were sucking battery on my test Android phone.

 

thanks! Funny, but I followed the same AV sequence as you.
Ice