Top 10 Best Antivirus Free Apps For Android

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Everyone thinks that which phone is best between Android vs iPhone. So both are good at their place, with their best features. By the way, Android is the best and common widely-used operating system in the whole world.

And that means having the best and great security applications and great free antivirus tools for Android installed on your device is required, as Google’s OS is frequently targeted by malware due to its reputation. Another important thing is that iPhone antivirus apps are also available for iPhone users.

Antivirus Apps For Android Device

Whatever best software you use with your Android phone or tablet, you’d be smart to have a best and free antivirus or a security app installed on your device. So here we talk about best and free antivirus apps for Android.

Avast Mobile Security

Antivirus mountain, Avast, has used its important skills to build an app which goes over and beyond a normal scanner.

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Other best features in the free version add a call blocker, firewall and even an anti-theft device enabling you to remotely lock or clean your Android device if it goes lost.

Features:-

  1. Call blocking
  2. Anti-theft feature

 

Bitdefender Antivirus Free

Bitdefender is a great name in the security area, and its always free antivirus program is very lightweight. In fact, it doesn’t run in the past which delivers up system devices and releases on battery life.

Features:-

  1. Minimal impact on your OS
  2. Dead easy setup

 

AVL

Antiy AVL is a recent winner of the AV-Test (a well-respected free antivirus testing outfit) award for excellent security of mobile devices.

Its best features add not only an antivirus database (of course) but a scanner able of catching any type of executable file making its way onto your Android device.

Features:-

  1. Great protection provided
  2. Light on resources

 

McAfee Security & Power Booster Free

McAfee is a different well-known name when it comes to best and antivirus software for the PC, and this Android app – McAfee Mobile Security – doesn’t fail.

Besides the best and free antivirus scanner itself, great features add tracking a missing device as well as locking and cleaning it remotely.

If your device is removed, the app can even take a picture of the criminal.

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Features:-

 

  1. Extensive anti-theft features
  2. Polices installed apps for data leakage

 

Kaspersky Mobile Antivirus

Kaspersky has a name up there with the great players like Bitdefender.

The free and best version of its security app has some awesome features, and it’s very great at picking up on malware, with a discovery rate of 99.9% according to AV-Test’s trials from November 2017.

Features:-

  1. Top-notch malware detection
  2. Blocks malicious sites or links

Sophos Free Antivirus and Security

Sophos’ free and excellent antivirus app has before won the AV-Test award for the excellent protection in 2015.

Unlike other best and free scanners, Sophos doesn’t include any adverts. It does, however, block sites with possibly spammy or stolen content.

Features:-

  1. Solid protection
  2. No adverts
  3. Authenticator for 2FA duties

Norton Security and Antivirus

This free and great app from Norton was capable to identify 100% of all Android malware when benchmarked by AV-Test several months ago.

The scanner is powered by Norton Mobile Insight and can identify diseases inside apps and files, then easily remove them automatically.

Features:-

  1. Excellent antivirus capabilities
  2. Remote locking of phone

Trend Micro Mobile Security & Antivirus

Trend Micro’s work not just scans different apps for malware but checks recently installed apps from entering different programs, which can be beneficial for device admins and parents.

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There’s also a built-in separation scanner for Facebook which alerts you if your profile settings are revealing delicate private information.

Features:-

  1. Solid security
  2. Integrated privacy scanner for Facebook

AhnLab V3 Mobile Security

This security best app from South Korean AhnLab is not as important and famous as the others on this list, but nonetheless has very great discovery rates for Android malware according to AV-Test (99.6%) and works well even on older Android devices.

Really, it has a built-in great booster to assist speed up your phone’s performance.

Features:-

  1. High malware detection rates
  2. Plenty of features
  3. Anti-theft alarm

Avira Antivirus Security

Avira’s mobile offering will not just look or scan files you download and content on your phone’s memory, but it can also scan outside all storage such as your SD card.

Best applications are considered using a privacy order to help you quickly determine how much they can be taken with your data.

Features:-

  1. Can scan external storage
  2. Neat Identity Safeguard feature

Conclusion

Therefore, that’s all about the best antivirus free apps for Android. These free apps are best for Android device. They always give proper security to save your all personal data or information.