AV-Comparatives Mobile Security Review August 2013

Resource usage & malware detection tested; features noted

http://www.av-comparatives.org/mobile-security/

Tested -
Avast 1.0
Bitdefender 1.1
Eset 1.1
F-Secure 7.6
Ikarus 1.1
Kaspersky 9.4
Lookout 7.14
McAfee 2.1
Qihoo 360 3.1
Sophos 1,0
Trend Micro 2.5
TrustGo 1.1
Webroot 2.9

 

Very, very interesting!
Thanks for the update, i would have never found this.

 

Thanks to AV-C for a nice test (as usual), and well written explaining pretty much everything in detail about the products.

 

One thing that i did not understand, what do the number behind the apps mean?

 

Interestingly, I stopped using mobile AV altogether to save RAM. Google (at least in Jelly Bean) already provides the main features of those AV: anti-theft and malware scanning.

After choosing between minimal increase in security for very unlikely scenarios or 100 MB more RAM for 1 GB total, the answer was easy.

 

Some of them provide some handy advanced features, such as Avast!.
Geofencing, Password Check, Retrieve logs etc.

Samsung Dive is a great option for people that own Samsung devices and do not want to get a third party app.

 

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AVC UnDroid [beta]
http://www.av-comparatives.org/avc-analyzer/

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Is your smartphone infected?
http://techblog.avira.com/2013/04/29/is-your-smartphone-infected/en/
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Avira Free Android Security
http://www.avira.com/en/avira-free-android-security

Release Information Avira Free Android Security Version 2.0 SP1
http://www.avira.com/en/support-for-home-knowledgebase-detail/kbid/1570

 

Nice test and it shows all the individual features of each App.

I don't know either, they don't seem to be in the report.

EDIT: found it. They are version numbers of the apps like I suspected earlier, but they didn't add up with the numbers in the report, because the numbers in the OP are from the September 2012 test, not the August 2013 test.