What's a better option?

[Android Central Question]

I want to download something and the one option I get is turn on unknown sources

What should I do

android device

 

[Andersonuser1]

What's some better downloads for this ?

I downloaded something and it has the option turn on unknown sources

 

[belodion]

Calculate the risk as best you can, then act accordingly.

 

[B. Diddy]

Re: What's some better downloads for this ?

Sorry, what are you asking about? What's the "something" you downloaded?

 

[Andersonuser1]

Re: What's some better downloads for this ?

An emulator
can it be made safe?

 

[B. Diddy]

Duplicate threads merged.

What kind of emulator? Like a game console emulator that you have to download as an apk file from some random site? There's nothing you can do to make it 100% safe, apart from hoping the site you're downloading from vets the files for malware and installing a good antimalware app like Malwarebytes.