Av-Comparatives: Mobile Security Review 2015 http://www.av-comparatives.org/mobile-security/ Source: http://www.av-comparatives.org
Incase anyone was looking for a total count of permissions requested by the apps, I was bored: AhnLab - 42 Antiy - 62 Avast - 43 AVG - 29 Avira - 40 Cheetah Clean Master - 27 *Though I'm not sure the security here does anything cause it scans but then prompts you to install Cheetah Security to do anything about what it finds. Cheetah Security - 45 Baidu - 22 Bitdefender - 66 ESET - 36 GData - 37 Kaspersky Lab - 39 McAfee - 44 Sophos - 51 Tencent - 29 Trend Micro - 35
It's interesting but it depends as well on the features of each app. Avast can even require you root access for certain features of anti thief