Hi,

I have just bought an @tab TEN.1 tablet. Can anyone please recommend a suitable anti virus program .

The operating system is Jellybean 4.1.

Thanks

Have Avast on my android tab and all pcs/laptops. Should be able to find it in the play store. Never had any problems on any devices. If your account is setup properly you should be able to access all your devices on your account page on their website. This means if your tablet is stolen you can lock it down from their website. Hope this helps. Jordan

Edit: Also use it on my android phone!

Edited 11 April, 201313 yr by Kartman

AVG free https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.antivirus.tablet&feature=search_result#?t=W251bGwsMSwyLDEsImNvbS5hbnRpdmlydXMudGFibGV0Il0.

Most of the time you dont even need anti virus on android. Every single person I know who has gotten a virus on their android devices has gotten it from pirated apps reposted on the store by a different developer (and almost immediately taken down) or apps not even installed via the play store. The malware situation on android is vastly exaggerated.

If you do want that piece of mind though, AVG or avast are both great choices.

Should have had an iPad

iPads have had malware too you know. Apple have just been better at withdrawing or removing the app from the store than google are from the play store to the point where most people have the impression that its non existant. There are plenty of other security holes in iOS though, the unlock screen bypass, the thing where it turned out you could embed commands for the OS itself into SMS messages and hijack the phone (demonstrated to be used to remotely cause an iPhone to place a phonecall to another number and remotely cause an iPhone to start playing a specific music track). Both patched but both massive flaws. iOS users cannot claim to have the upper hand.

But 99% of the time someone gets infected by malware it is user error. Them not checking what they are downloading is legitimate software. People downloading Angry Birds from "free games are fun" or something, not realising that they haven't gotten it from the original publisher. Same happens on windows.

Computers dont just get malware. Users download and execute them. I have had a computer since I was 8, in that time I have been infected once, just once. It was a keylogger which was installed when I ran an application from a USB drive, I got the application from a friend earlier in the day and seconds after installing it got the phone call from him to say not to run it :p. Just so happened to be that I didnt have home internet back then and norton immediately flagged something as being wrong, stepdad also insisted on norton at the time, god damn awful piece of software.

Another thing. Technically most malware downloaded by users is not a virus, a virus is a very specific type of malware and is incredible rare.

Most of the time you dont even need anti virus on android. Every single person I know who has gotten a virus on their android devices has gotten it from pirated apps reposted on the store by a different developer (and almost immediately taken down) or apps not even installed via the play store. The malware situation on android is vastly exaggerated.

If you do want that piece of mind though, AVG or avast are both great choices.

I use lookout security to check for malware

AVG Free on my Android , perfect for me

Thanks for all the advice, have decided to give Avast a try.

I like the modern world, it is only here you could look for anti virus for a tablet, if you ask your grandmother she would say "surely you mean a tablet for a virus".

I would go with what has already been suggested, AVG or Avast, I have an iPad, iMac and Mac Book, all run Sophos as Macs catch colds too!

Given the number of people I've known have avg and get hit with nasty infections I personally wouldn't touch it with a barge pole

Should have had an iPad

I have .... and i'm totally bored of it!!