Zoals de resultaten laten zien van recente testen van antivirusoplossingen voor Android, alleen het gebruik van Google Play Protect is onvoldoende om de veiligheid tegen cyberdreigingen te waarborgen.
Researchers from AV-TEST analyzed 19 antivirusproducten op hun effectiviteit, functionaliteit en gebruiksgemak. Op elk van deze drie parameters werden applicaties gescoord met een maximum van 6 punten voor effectiviteit en gemak en 1 point for functionality.Highest score with 13 maximum points received applications AhnLab V3 Mobile Security, Avast Mobile Security, AVGAntivirus Free, ESET Endpoint Security, Kaspersky Lab Internet Security for Android, Sophos Mobile Security, Symantec Norton Mobile Security and Trend Micro Mobile Security. Their effectiveness and convenience scored 6 points and their functionality got 1 point.
Products from Bitdefender, F-Secure, G Data, McAfee and SK Telecom evaluated in 12,5 points each.
The lowest mark with only three total points got only one application and it was Google Play Protect. Three points this program received for convenience of use while effectiveness and functionality scored zero.
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During the testing of ability to block malware files in real-time mode, application blocked only 62% of malwares while medium result of other applications was 97,8%. Considering protection from recent malwares that were released in the last four weeks, result was slightly better – 69.2%. niettemin, result of other solutions was 98.2%.
While installing and exploitation of legitimate applications from Google Play Store antivirus issues 189 falsepositive notifications.
Bron: www.av-test.org
