Privacy focused Antivirus - Mobile

[FlipSid]

Hello,

inspired by this thread:

Privacy Focused Anti-Virus

Is there an anti-virus that’s privacy focused for Windows 10/11? I’ve seen some say that Windows Defender is sufficient but I’ve seen and heard of github repositories that can just disable Windows Defender without notification. Compared to an actual anti-virus, it just doesn’t do nearly as much since its so targeted. Any help or suggestions are greatly appreciated, thank you so much

I figured I would open one for the mobile section.
@Valynor could you merge the posts over here?
As far as I have understood, there (supposedly) useless on Android (iOS)
I can start to understand and have a few links open to get more Infos BUT:
Chromium (Brave, Chrome etc) don’t ask before they download and some links just don’t tell you it’s a download before you click it. Only Chromium browser that does is Edge Android. The rest just download and ask me if I want to open it…
Which is why I am using Eset Mobile Security atm.
I am aware of the trackers.

[user1]

Hypatia is the only recommendation

Hypatia (Android Anti-Malware)

Continuing the discussion from GitHub: Hypatia Where is the discussion on this? I mean, I think this shouldn’t be just pushed to the website without the forum thread. I actually do not think this is quite recommendable at all. […] Also, this app doesn’t stop you from being infected at all, and the chance that it will notify you about it in my eyes is exceptionally low. […] I understand the need of this app for DivestOS as it does not have Google Play, but for others I do not see much ben…

[FlipSid]

I’ll give it another try, last time it did not detect eicar. As far as that is important, because G Data didn’t either…
Edit: Need the extended database, then Icar is recognized

[SkewedZeppelin]

@FlipSid
You do not need the extended database to detect eicar, nor do I recommend you enable that experimental feature.

[FlipSid]

@SkewedZeppelin
That’s weird.
I’ll uninstall and try again. First time it didn’t work.
But I can live with a few false positives…
Edit: Tried a few times. Same results. Have to click extended database, ok, update database. Then test file from eicar (official HP) is detected. Without no reaction.

[SkewedZeppelin]

@FlipSid

eicar (official HP)

You’re saying it doesn’t detect this? https://secure.eicar.org/eicar.com

[FlipSid]

@SkewedZeppelin
Not detection but that link opens in the browser.
Will not detect

Download Anti Malware Testfile - EICAR

The .zip either…
After extended database it gets the .zip
RE Android 14
Pixel 7 Pro
Brave as per your guide +extra stuff deactivated in Websitesettings

[IksNorTen]

The best antivirus is you (even Hypatia which is often recommended is not perfect).

[FlipSid]

I’ve been reading around online about the security model:
https://source.android.com/docs/security/app-sandbox

Permissions on Android  |  Android Developers

https://source.android.com/docs/security/overview
(For me this stuff was new)
But since I can’t get Brave to n o t automatically download of the net once I click a link (that hides a PDF Doc) I’ll leave some sort of protection on my device.
Alternative would be to use Edge, since that is the only browser to ask first.