Protection Apps for Android – Feb. 2013
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At present, over 15 million smartphones in Germany use Android as an operating system. This number does not even include the additional millions of Android tablets that are currently in use. Surveys have shown that every Android device uses at least 20 other apps. Despite this fact, not one of the top 20 most popular smartphone apps is an antivirus app, which is completely incomprehensible given that Android users can choose from a large selection of protection apps, some of which are even free. In January 2013, the AV-TEST test laboratory examined 22 antivirus apps that are currently available for Android. All but one of these test candidates were able to achieve excellent results.
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