Bionic and Viruses

[Bionic Bobsled]

After battling a virus on my wife's laptop for the last two days I have to ask, should I be concerned about getting a virus on my Bionic? I know to only d/l from the market, amazon and the like but you just never know. What steps (apps or settings) to help reduce my exposure to viruses?

TIA

And yeah, I was able to get rid of it on her laptop.

 

[TitaniumMan]

Apples and oranges here. Our phones are not windows based. No worries on viruses.. before you download from market place, it tells you before what the program will do to your phone. make sure your option not use unknown apps. Youre fine..

 

[dmcman73]

After battling a virus on my wife's laptop for the last two days I have to ask, should I be concerned about getting a virus on my Bionic? I know to only d/l from the market, amazon and the like but you just never know. What steps (apps or settings) to help reduce my exposure to viruses?

TIA

And yeah, I was able to get rid of it on her laptop.

You don't have to worry about the virus affecting your phone as it will not be able to run BUT the virus can copy itself onto it since when you plug the phone in it mounts as a storage device. Some viruses are known to infect USB drives and other removable media in the hopes that you will plug it into another PC for it to replicate onto.

 

[2defmouze]

Download Lookout from the market. It will run in the background, uses very little system resources, scan every new app you download automatically... just all around a good thing to have if you're at all concerned about the chance of getting a virus.

Just because apps are in the market does NOT mean they are virus-free.

Besides that, any apps you download make sure to read what permissions they are asking for, and ask yourself if it makes sense that the app needs that permission. Also read through the reviews... If an app is mining people's data and doing things it shouldn't be, you'll usually be able to see within the first couple reviews people are talking about that, then you can know to avoid installing it.

 

[SirGeorgeKillian]

You don't have to worry about the virus affecting your phone as it will not be able to run BUT the virus can copy itself onto it since when you plug the phone in it mounts as a storage device. Some viruses are known to infect USB drives and other removable media in the hopes that you will plug it into another PC for it to replicate onto.

Yeah, ask those boys up at the pentagon about that. Now USB drives are banned on all Gov't computers.

 

[dmcman73]

Yeah, ask those boys up at the pentagon about that. Now USB drives are banned on all Gov't computers.

At a Mortgage bank that I used to work at, I disabled all USB ports on all PC's so that nothing, not even phones, could be plugged into the system.

 

[beh]

I am using Sunbelt Software's Vipre (note spelling) beta available in the Market. I have used their PC version since long before it was Vipre and it runs circles around anything else for PCs. They have 24hr tech support located in FL and have a tremendous willingness and ability to help when things go very wrong. Not connected to Sunbelt in any way except as a long time very satisfied customer.

 

[Bionic Bobsled]

Download Lookout from the market. It will run in the background, uses very little system resources, scan every new app you download automatically... just all around a good thing to have if you're at all concerned about the chance of getting a virus.

Just because apps are in the market does NOT mean they are virus-free.

Besides that, any apps you download make sure to read what permissions they are asking for, and ask yourself if it makes sense that the app needs that permission. Also read through the reviews... If an app is mining people's data and doing things it shouldn't be, you'll usually be able to see within the first couple reviews people are talking about that, then you can know to avoid installing it.

Yeah, this is more what I had in mind in my original post and not so much that the virus on my wife's computer would attack my Bionic. Tho possible to hitch a ride and infect other computers.

Thanks for the suggested apps guys, I'll take a look at those.