virus protection

[fic1]

Do you think a virus protection should be on the droid x? If so which one is recommended?

 

[icculusX]

No and None... right now it's really nothing to worry about. Any 'virus' app will just waste your phones memory or your pocket money.

 

[hookbill]

Since there are no viruses on any Droid ask yourself what are they protecting you from? In regular virus protection on a computer they have a list of known viruses that the computer scans for. There are none in Droids.

It's a resource hog. I had one on my Mac which also doesn't need one and I could not believe how slow it made my Mac. And by the way, Mac if anybody would be the first non windows OS to get a virus before any phone would.

You don't need it, it will just cause your phone issues.

 

[fic1]

Thank you, This is a great forum with a lot of info

 

[Juicemane]

You are the AV. Be careful when installing Apps. Check the permissions before you install them. If a simple flashlight app needs access to your Phone and Messaging, somethings wrong.

 

[Slothead]

Do you think a virus protection should be on the droid x? If so which one is recommended?

I don't think so - yet.
Remember that the Android OS is a Unix-based OS, and very few people use Unix compared to those using Microsoft-based OSs. Thus IMHO it will probably be some time before the hackers decide to infiltrate Unix systems.