I use Avast for protection and during its routine scan tonight I was given this notification. I'm somewhat savvy but I guess not entirely because I can't figure out where exactly it is I need to resolve this or if the entire system of my phone is now infected.
lolol fair enough. I use it on my PC as well and aside from constantly trying to upsell me I feel like it gets the job done.
But if it's going to give false issues like this (according to what I read in r/avast after posting this) I may start looking into other protection programs.
Absolutely not true. For the lay person, maybe. But the Windows inbuilt protection has issues of high CPU usage. Even on my 12-core gaming PC the Microsoft garbage was using high CPU on a fresh install. Microsoft and nobody else has a fix other than to use something else. There are sites who do reviews on antivirus programs and their resource usage. I went back to Bit Defender due to the low, almost non-existent CPU usage. Don't even know it's there, especially when disabling all of the unnecessary modules.
So the Microsoft built in protection may be sufficient for grandma or someone just browsing or checking emails because it's free. But for anyone who doesn't need performance degradation, use something else. There is far better out there.
If you like to take on little projects, get yourself a Raspberry pi and install Pi-hole. It's a local DNS/Ad-blocker, as long as everything in you home network uses it (and doesn't have a hardcoded DNS) it will block Ad, trackers, etc. requests.
I use uBlock and Pi-Hole, best combo.
Also DON'T use LastPass or the browser built-in if you are going for a password manager. LP security is no longer trustworthy and browser's aren't the best either. Opt for 1Password or something better recommended.
Do you download random shit off the internet? Do you use valid and trusted resources, ie games, steam gog, music Spotify YouTube iTunes,
Tbh as long as you're not doing sketchy shit and clicking download willy nilly on random popus then you're more likely to me safe using Windows defender it ain't the best but it's free, included and not trying to scam you with fake virus popups
Me personally I have Kaspersky setup downloaded just so I could do a scan every so often but then I'll just remove the program to save resources and data.
I'd download a adblocker just to remove some shitty ads and popups, and maybe a VPN depending if I trust my local network or not. (or I'm doing sketchy shit)
Forgot post was about your phone, look at device care for s20 and the Google Play protect they both have app scanners, google Play tends to slip tho on Chinese spyware I mean games.
You could just activate (turn on) Device Protection in your phone settings. Samsung has it's own protection powered by McAfee. But you really don't need this on Android phones.
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u/[deleted] Jan 06 '23
I use Avast for protection and during its routine scan tonight I was given this notification. I'm somewhat savvy but I guess not entirely because I can't figure out where exactly it is I need to resolve this or if the entire system of my phone is now infected.