lookout mobile security

[SoDev]

What Rem said.

I'm new to Android, but from what I gather, I do not believe that most people use any sort of anti-virus anyway. Not saying I should jump off the bridge too, but I believe it may be necessary one day, like on computers, but not completely, yet. I was just running Lookout for fun mostly, just to check it out. I've been meaning to remove it, because I'm really just not that worried about it. If something ever went wrong I'd like to think I could use my backups/delete and flash over it, and if that didn't work I'd pay my warranty fee for a new phone. That's worse case scenario and not likely to get that far. At this point I'd rather have one less process and the tiny bit of battery life over the peace of mind. And then there is the fact that I don't even know if it really works... would it catch a nasty if there was one?

Also, I uninstalled Lookout yesterday and rebooted. Last night I got a lookout error as I dl'd an app., saw it in my running processes, killed it, rebooted. This morning, same thing... killed the process and uninstalled. Restarting now...

I had nothing but good feelings about lookout, but this is starting to parce me off... virus who?

 

[drummerman2008]

The problem with apps you don't have to pay monthly for vs the ones you do is that eventually the makers will stop doing updates for them. But the ones you have to pay monthly will always have newer and better things coming

 

[fatboy97]

The problem with apps you don't have to pay monthly for vs the ones you do is that eventually the makers will stop doing updates for them. But the ones you have to pay monthly will always have newer and better things coming

Interesting theory... but the way I look at it, if someone stops staying up with things like virus scanning there is another free one, two or three out there that will... or at least one, two or three that are coming up with something better... but again, if you want to pay money for something that is free please do... I'll stick with the free stuff.

 

[Jett2314]

I'm trying out the premium trial. It's only $30. a year which is not much at all. The only problem I have with it is if phone is lost or stolen, any one with basic knowledge could uninstall the app before you get to use it for it's intended purpose. It should really have a required password to uninstall or stop the program.