What is your Mobile security setup these days?

Likewise...nothing at all...I am a Windows Phone and the OS is locked down tight/secure so no need for additional security apps.

 

Isn't it possible that a "nasty" might get in via a browser exploit? (This is an honest question. I do not know the answer.)

 

@bellgamin:

Windows 10 Mobile is Windows 10 on steroids.

Locked down through UMCI (user mode code integrity). Nothing runs unless signed by Microsoft.

Additional info : https://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/itpro/windows/keep-secure/windows-10-mobile-security-guide

 

So... has Windows 10 Mobile surpassed Android as *the best OS* for mobile use?

 

Haha no. Windows Phone is basically dead in the water right now. No app support, basically only used by companies that don't want to shell out the money for iPhones.

Last I checked Windows' market share was at 0.5% or so.

 

@bellgamin:

Some users base their life on what they read in the more "colorful" mass media, instead of actual real world experience. Which is why mobile OS threads has a tendency to bring out "mine is bigger than yours" comments like the one above.

What the user above are referring to are the "mildly amusing" fact that the mass media doesn't know how Windows 10 works.

Windows 10 introduced UWP.
With UWP a application no longer has to be rewritten to each device family and are no longer bound to be for example a mobile application.

What this means are that since Windows Phone 8.x are now the past, and Windows 10 with UWP that spans across all device families are now the future - then companies will retire their Windows Phone apps and introduce UWP apps instead.
From a developing point of view this makes a lot of sense, since you now only have to maintain one single application going forward. But it will work on both pc, tablet, mobile, xbox, HoloLens - any device family you include.

The mass media tells just one side of the story - when the Windows Phone app was removed.
They "accidently" forget to mention the appearance of the UWP app.

It's a growing process at the moment, that I can follow since one of my Microsoft accounts are used on both laptop, mobile and xbox. As the applications are released as UWP, they pop up on my account as available for download on laptop, mobile and xbox respectively.

Additional info : https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/uwp/get-started/universal-application-platform-guide

 

To quote George Clooney from the Nespresso adds: Windows what else? (obviously Windows Security owns a Windows Phone with no third party security )

 

rofl, sentence of the day


@Martin_C i agree , instead of testing and observing by themselves; lot of noobs read noobs writers and base their noobs opinions on noobs articles...

 

Or, you know, I have over a decade of experience in the industry, was using Windows Phone from the first generation of the switch from Windows Mobile (The Samsung Focus), to the latest generation, interspersed with a ton of Android and iPhones. Please don't assume, you just look silly.

The market share numbers ARE correct. Here in the US, which Bellgamin is, you can't even find many banks with a WP app. Many major app makers steer clear of WP, simply because there's no profit in it. Not to mention, the universal apps idea was great in theory, but nobody uses the "windows app store" on a desktop, they just install a freestanding application.

SO yes, the security aspect is great, because A: it's a very locked down OS, and B: Nobody is going to even try making malware for something with 0.5% of market share.

The UX is actually quite nice. I personally preferred Windows Phone 7 over 10, but it is what it is.

The app situation is indeed horrendous. You can check for yourself by looking up the Windows app store, and trying to find versions of what you normally use. The simple fact that a lot of the popular apps apps were made by an independat developer, Rudy Huyn, who put up an amazing effort to save a struggling ecosphere.

So yeah, please, tell me more about how I don't know what I'm talking about.

 

Once generations of brave men stood shoulder to shoulder fighting for their country.
Not all survived, but at least the mothers of those who fell knew their loss meant the survival of many countrymen.

Today lone vigilantes fight for their phones with furious postings dictating that when a OS eco system contain 30.001+ flashlight applications then surely they are the master of the world.
Not all of these heroes can go through a day without sore thumbs - but hey, that is a sacrifice they are willing to make.




As for the rest of your mumble jumble -

1. In the part of the world where I live, Windows 10 Mobile are doing pretty well in the business segment.
2. Business segment here chooses it exactly due to security.
3. Since I have been using the platform since the beginning and since colleagues, family and friends across several countries uses it too, I'm very well aware of the app situation and nobody here are complaining about missing apps. But of course, a phone are primarily a work tool around here - we're not the segment that request flashlight apps.
4. Major banks around here are all present in the Store.
5. Open the Store on Windows 10 Mobile instead of on desktop, if you want to comment on it. You will get a very different reality presented than what you claim.
Furthermore the Store are regional, and developers in this region where I'm located are very active.

Amazing you didn't know all this, considering your "The average person in general is dumber than a bag of wet hammers." statement from last week.

 

And where exactly are you located? Based on your argument, I'd say Asia, possibly India. And the person asking? America. Where the major banks are NOT represented. Where the apps are few and far between. Sure, go on the Windows Phone market, and you get banking apps in all sorts of areas. Except America. He's also asking about a phone for personal use, not business. Another reason your argument falls short.

We get it. You enjoy Windows Phone. Good for you. But let's not create some sort of illusion where it's actually doing well in what amounts to a two horse race in the mobile world.

 

Citibank is a major american bank, and it has an app for WP: https://online.citi.com/US/JRS/portal/template.do?ID=CitiMobileMicroOverview
Jpmorgan as well : https://mspoweruser.com/jp-morgan-chase-banking-app-comes-to-windows-phone/
not saying Bank of america :
https://www.bankofamerica.com/online-banking/windows-banking-app.go
http://www.windowscentral.com/bank-america-windows-10-app-march-28

im not american nor owning a WinPhone at the moment so maybe they all disappeared...

 

CCleaner
Emsisoft Mobile Security

 

The benefits of a Windows Phone

1. Nobody wants to have it (it has been returned to me twice when I left it on a table, once in Asia and once in Africa)
2. Superb and easy connectivity to my office environment (mail, skype, office, one drive)
3. Battery life, I am stil using the battery of my previous 640 (cracked the Gorilla glas screen), will replace it with the battery of the 640 I bought on black friday last year in january (so I will have three battery life days again, in stead of two days I have now)
4. Off line Maps & off line language translations (I travel a lot, i really like the on the fly translation using my camera)
5. Even without offline maps you can still navigate without air-costs using reduced detailed maps (but they were detailed enough in Myanmar for example to drive dirt roads with ebike in Bagan).
6. Apps I use: what's app, bookviser (due to great battery life I also use my phone as eReader), CamCard, connectivity tiles, flashlight. All other stuff I access through my web browser.
7. Price performance ratio vs Apple 1/3 of the price, vs Android 1/2 of the price for simular hardware specs.
8. Familiar user interface (tiles are easy to use on phone)

Battery life is so incredible (with 640): in 2015 we were in Namibië, we used my WP as NavSet all day. With simular usage in the morning and evening my wife's Apple and Android phone (one for work other private) had less battery % left as my WP at the end of the day. I have my screen time-out on three minutes (for comparison). This is my third WP phone.

 

Windows Phone rulz lol

 

Lookout Security "Gadget Guardian" with Extension for Chrome "VPN/Webfilter"
SD Maid for privacy.

 

Just switched over from AFWall+ to ESET Mobile Security, Zemana Mobile Security for on-demand.
AdAway with custom MDL hosts list.
SD Maid (Paid), system debloat, and permissions slimmed.

 

For anyone who isn't familiar with windows phones and security is important to you, along with timely updates and development of software (And yes, MS is definitely plans to continue to develop the software) - you might want to check out these links

http://betanews.com/2015/06/11/windows-phone-security-is-top-notch-says-kaspersky/
http://www.makeuseof.com/tag/secure-mobile-operating-system/

I find that it has all the apps I need, and what's more, I can trust the apps I use. That definitely wasn't always the case with my Android apps. The edge browser and apps more or less run in their own sandbox, separate from the operating system. So if the thought on a script kidde sending you a text message that gives him access to your camera and microphone bothers you, and you want something you can trust right out of the box, you might want to at least give it a look. Especially those who are running older android systems or don't get timely Android updates.

 

Windows Phone also has small market share so it probably isn't so attractive to attackers. Security through obscurity...

 

Same here.

 

None. Just keep my phone and tablets updated.

 

partially, but then there is the comment from Kasprsky

 

- NoRoot Data Firewall
- Trend Micro MobileSecurity Premium

 

Seems to be an interesting app:

http://www.ghacks.net/2014/02/10/control-apps-may-access-internet-android-device/

 

I am deep enough into the Google ecosystem for that to happen.