These can be malware or phishing attempts, but they can also be trying to persuade you to download an app or visit their website.

Your contacts have been receiving unusual messages from you that you haven’t sentīe aware that unscrupulous advertisers will often use 'your device is infected' pop-ups to persuade you to click on them.

Your phone has apps you don’t remember downloading.

You’re experiencing a lot of pop-up ads.

The battery drains faster than expected.

The signs that your phone has been infected with a virus or malicious malware include:

During our most recent evaluation, Bitdefender scored highest in both categories.Whilst viruses and malware do not pose a significant threat to your Galaxy phone due to Samsung's industry leading security features, it is still important to be vigilant to a virus attack. Generally speaking, the two testing labs awarded all of the anti-malware programs from our sample good-very good scores in terms of both security and performance. Should we have noticed lag or been otherwise hampered while performing routine tasks (such as opening a browser, copying and pasting text, etc.), we'll let you know in this part of our assessment and deduct points accordingly. Security is measured largely on the number of false positives and the general identification rate for threats that a program demonstrates.įor performance, we also add our own two cents by relating how our computer performed while a full scan was running in the background. Specifically, we rely on the testing results from AV-Test ⇱ and AV-Comparatives ⇱, each of which regularly awards scores in the areas of security and performance. Thankfully, there exist independent testing labs that regularly assess how reliable most of the programs featured in our sample are at protecting users against malware. Even the most user-friendly app with an awe-inspiring impressive package of features will mean little if the software's anti-malware engines are not up to the task of identifying and neutralizing the most complicated threats.

Anti malware app