Securing your phone against hacking?
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Fatwah on Western Digital
Samsung devices come with Knox as a security platform, but overwhelmingly the issues you'll have on any mobile platform will come from either an app abusing permissions you gave it willingly or from a service provider being hacked, rather than something that happens to your individual device.
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Fatwah on Western Digital
Just to reinforce this point: Unless your personal habits are exceptionally poor, third party security software on Android is wasting electricity. I've found a virus on an Android tablet only one time and the person who had it was installing hacked .APK files so they could get free in-game currency for the mobile games they liked.
I suspect Tiktok and Facebook are bigger security threats that anything that would set off a malware scanner anyway.
I suspect Tiktok and Facebook are bigger security threats that anything that would set off a malware scanner anyway.
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My longtime Fiance is retarded when it comes to computers and phones. If it had something to do with shopping, she would install every virus possible, and she would do it, just to get what she was shopping for.
I'm going to put eset on her phone right now...
I'm going to put eset on her phone right now...
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I have an aunt who tells me her ipad is broken every time she sees me. She's not dumb, but I do think the ipad actively does a lot to prevent her from understanding what she's doing. Anyway, there is a maximum number of open tabs in Safari and once her device hits that number it's "broken." The fix is to just close them all. I've explained what I'm doing and why. I've demonstrated the concept of tabs to her on a desktop. Doesn't matter. She's going to forget before it becomes an issue again, so three or four times a year, I just close all her tabs while complaining that I had to use iOS.
Mobile OSes hide a lot of complexity from end users. People don't HAVE to do file management on them and often don't know why they're getting notifications or what they're supposed to do with them. At the same time, no one was born knowing how to use any of this stuff and a lot of people don't actually want to learn, either.
Eset isn't going to fix your girlfriend's problem. Paying attention to when things want notification, location, call or contacts access will help her a lot, but you that's something that has to be patiently explained. I like to set people up with ad blocking everywhere I can and I like to explain why app permissions are a big deal, but at the end of the day, people are going to do what they want on their devices and if that means installing 47 Bible apps that each want to show lock screen ads, that's just how they're going to live.
Mobile OSes hide a lot of complexity from end users. People don't HAVE to do file management on them and often don't know why they're getting notifications or what they're supposed to do with them. At the same time, no one was born knowing how to use any of this stuff and a lot of people don't actually want to learn, either.
Eset isn't going to fix your girlfriend's problem. Paying attention to when things want notification, location, call or contacts access will help her a lot, but you that's something that has to be patiently explained. I like to set people up with ad blocking everywhere I can and I like to explain why app permissions are a big deal, but at the end of the day, people are going to do what they want on their devices and if that means installing 47 Bible apps that each want to show lock screen ads, that's just how they're going to live.