ESET Mobile Security Available on Google Play Store

Article by George Norman (Cybersecurity Editor)

on 29 Jun 2012

ESET, company that offers antivirus software for home and business users, recently announced that its ESET Mobile Security app for Android has been rolled out to the Google Play Store (previously Android Market).

Get ESET Mobile Security if you have a smartphone or tabloid powered by Google’s Android operating system and you want to keep it safe and sound. What we have here is a security software solution that combines ESET’s proactive scanning engine with antispam and antitheft solutions, thus providing real-time protection to Android-powered smartphones. It will protect Android devices from emerging threats, privacy mishaps, theft.

To better put things in perspective, here’s the sort of functionality you can expect to get from ESET Mobile Security:
  • Optimized to offer real-time protection without slowing down your Android-powered device. Using proactive heuristics technology, apps, files, folders, memory cards are continually scanned for Trojans, viruses, worms, spyware, adware, phishing, spam, and other threats.
  • Anti-theft features in case your Android is stolen: remotely lock your device, remotely wipe your device, use GPS to locate your device.
  • Trusted Friend feature that works like this: a SMS alert will be sent out to when an unknown SIM card is inserted into the device; the trusted fried can reset the user’s forgotten password if needed.
  • Built-in task manager to let you monitor vital phone functions such as battery life, free disk space, running processes, Bluetooth, and device visibility.
  • Uninstall protection to prevent unauthorized uninstallation of ESET Mobile Security.
  • Block unwanted incoming or outgoing calls.
  • SMS and MMS antispam protection.

ESET Mobile Security is available in 24 languages: English, Polish, Danish, Finnish, Norwegian, Russian, Hungarian, Spanish, German, Portuguese Brazilian, Dutch, French, Romanian, Turkish, Swedish, Chinese Simplified, Chinese Traditional, Italian, French Canadian, Korean, Spanish Latin, Czech, Hebrew and Slovak.

You can get a 30-day ESET Mobile Security trial from the Google Play Store here.
A 1-year license is priced at $9.99.

The first time we reported on the ESET Mobile Security was back in the spring of 2011 when a Beta version was rolled out to the public. Then in the autumn of 2011 we reported that the Release Candidate was rolled out, and now we are glad to report that the final version is available in the Play Store.



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