VirusTotal Mobile

Are you worried about your mobile security? Protect your Android smartphone or tablet from viruses and malware with the VirusTotal Mobile application

Scan your Android device for malware

We carry cellphones to our knees, so it's no surprise that viruses, virtual threats, and malware have been making inroads. To detect malware on our device, we can download the APK file of this tool which, contrary to what you might think, is not a mobile antivirus.

Keep malware at bay

VirusTotal Mobile is a malware detection tool for mobile devices. Be careful, because the developers themselves warn us that it's not an antivirus, it doesn't protect in real time and it doesn't eliminate threats.

So what is it good for? Well, to scan smartphones and tablets for malware and dangers. In this way, every time we activate it, it will use more than 50 antivirus programs to check the content of all the apps that we have installed on the terminal.

After the analysis, the system will show us a list of known applications. Those that are not recognized we can send to the database for analysis.

But that's not all, because in addition to the apps, it also offers the possibility of entering the URL of a web page or uploading a file to analyze it for malware. And it even includes a statistics section that registers all scanned items and the items detected as infected.

Requirements and further information:

• Minimum operating system requirements: Android 4.4.