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Which security features do you want to see in avast! Mobile Security

Parental Control: manage or observe the activity of children on the device
Ad-Blocking: remove unwanted adds (and also link to uninstall ofending apps)
Backup: save personal data to cloud storage (perhaps even syncing...)
Encryption: device encryption, SD encryption
VPN: encryption of the internet traffic
Safe QR code scanner for both URL and app up to be downloaded
Other security feature (please, specify)
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Offline Lisandro

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Which security features do you want to see in avast! Mobile Security
« on: February 23, 2013, 04:49:52 PM »
Well, what do you miss in avast! Mobile Security?
I mean, security features only  8)
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Re: Which security features do you want to see in avast! Mobile Security
« Reply #1 on: February 26, 2013, 04:08:33 PM »
I really don't want any of the things mentioned in the poll . What I want is for the product to be better suited for tablets and to include support for the Dolphin Browser in the Web Scanning.
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Re: Which security features do you want to see in avast! Mobile Security
« Reply #2 on: February 26, 2013, 04:26:05 PM »
Snap, none of the above as for the most part they have nothing to do with security and I really don't like bloat.
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Re: Which security features do you want to see in avast! Mobile Security
« Reply #3 on: February 27, 2013, 05:03:32 AM »
I'd like to see something related to ads, and concur that ads might not be security-related.
At the very least, let me know when an application I am installing or just installed will push ads.

Blocking ads totally is likely impractical - after all we do get a bunch of apps free and ads support it, though I much prefer to donate to the author if the app is worth it and at least a dozen or so are worth having.

I don't need links to removal or any other fancy features, as that can be easily done through the Setup menu.

I liked it, and posted about it, when DrWeb warned about some audio-video app full of AirPush ads.
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Re: Which security features do you want to see in avast! Mobile Security
« Reply #4 on: March 20, 2013, 10:12:16 AM »
I would like to see an improved application management. It would be nice if a user could overwrite every single specific right of every app :)

So if i have an application installed which should not be able to locate my position, i simply block this permission but can allow this app e.g. to access the internet.
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Re: Which security features do you want to see in avast! Mobile Security
« Reply #5 on: March 30, 2013, 06:43:29 PM »
Hi Tech,

Great would be to have an inbuilt url expander for shortened urls, so one knows where one's clicks goes to....

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Re: Which security features do you want to see in avast! Mobile Security
« Reply #6 on: March 31, 2013, 10:16:57 AM »
Nothing of the above poll, just an option to remotely take front-face pictures of any thief silently and send it (with GPS data) to a friends phone or the avast! dashboard. 8)
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Re: Which security features do you want to see in avast! Mobile Security
« Reply #7 on: March 31, 2013, 09:27:52 PM »
Quote from: Zocor on March 31, 2013, 10:16:57 AM
Nothing of the above poll, just an option to remotely take front-face pictures of any thief silently and send it (with GPS data) to a friends phone or the avast! dashboard. 8)
Some countries have laws that block the hidden picture (without user intervention and also without sound).
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Re: Which security features do you want to see in avast! Mobile Security
« Reply #8 on: April 06, 2013, 02:15:43 PM »
Hi Tech,

Why not add a threat level like this: https://webapp.iss.net/gtoc/index.html
See attached...

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Re: Which security features do you want to see in avast! Mobile Security
« Reply #9 on: April 06, 2013, 06:05:27 PM »
For anti-theft:

- An SMS command that uses the device's default TTS engine to speak text
- An SMS command to record audio
- An SMS command to capture a video/photo (of the front camera if possible)
- An SMS command to capture a screenshot
- An SMS command to disable/close an application running in the background (some battery saving apps force mobile data/wifi/GPS off when the phone is in "sleep" mode, and I'm not sure what happens when they force it off, and avast forces it on...). By disabling unnecessary background apps, the battery would last longer too.  Avast could check all the installed/running apps (like in the firewall) and upload the list to my.avast.com (excluding important system apps, perhaps).
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Re: Which security features do you want to see in avast! Mobile Security
« Reply #10 on: April 06, 2013, 07:06:51 PM »
Detection of Push Ads.
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Re: Which security features do you want to see in avast! Mobile Security
« Reply #11 on: April 06, 2013, 08:36:41 PM »
As Google changed its policy, seems we won't see Ad-Blocking: remove unwanted adds (and also link to uninstall ofending apps) anymore  :-\
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Re: Which security features do you want to see in avast! Mobile Security
« Reply #12 on: April 06, 2013, 10:27:53 PM »
I don't mind ads, they do fuel the free apps, but i want to be notified when apps are overaggressive with their ads that integrate themself into the OS. Thats breach of my safety space and i don't want them on my device. I'm not asking for blocking, i'm asking for detection and notification of the user. Because i dont' even want to use such apps. Thats all i want and nothing else as the rest actually works as intended and i don't really miss any feature. Maybe firewall for non-root users but unless API will allow that, we won't see it i guess.
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« Reply #13 on: April 06, 2013, 10:42:51 PM »
Quote from: RejZoR on April 06, 2013, 10:27:53 PM
I'm not asking for blocking, i'm asking for detection and notification of the user.
That seems reasonable. In the meantime, you can use AdAway for that.
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Re: Which security features do you want to see in avast! Mobile Security
« Reply #14 on: April 07, 2013, 04:47:49 AM »
Quote from: RejZoR on April 06, 2013, 10:27:53 PM
i'm asking for detection and notification of the user. Because i dont' even want to use such apps.
AppBrain Ad Detector has a live module to warn about this.
I don't know how long it will survive...

It's better than Lookout and others imho.
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