V3 Mobile Security-AntiMalware

AhnLab Inc.

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About this app

V3 Mobile Security is a comprehensive antivirus solution for Android phones. Keep your phone and personal information safe with a single touch without draining your battery.

Globally Certified Robust Malware Protection
• Ranked no 1 by AV-TEST and AV-Comparatives, global test agencies
• Recorded 100% mobile malware detection (protection)
• Earned AV-TEST certification 24 consecutive times since 2013

Minimal CPU and Battery Usage
• Designed to use less battery
• Lower CPU usage than other mobile antiviruses

Fast and Strong Mobile Virus Protection
• Real-time monitoring: Scans applications before and after installation
• Fast scan: Scans applications installed on your phone
• Accurate scan: Scans all files with access permissions and potentially unwanted applications (PUA)

Easy One-Touch Security Scan
• Scans after latest engine update
• Scans for rooting, permissions for unknown sources and screen lock status

Your Own Privacy Advisor
• Informs you about what each installed app can do on device administrator, app payments, location tracking, tapping, contacts access and other sensitive information
• Provides guide on application privileges based on 17 categories

Privacy Cleaner
• Clean up APK files, large files, old apps, screenshots, and download folders!

Privacy Filter
• Turn on the feature when you want some privacy with your phone.
• Try the new “Anti-Bluelight Filter” feature!

App Lock to Protect Privacy
• Locks app.
※ Not supported on Android 5.0 (Lollipop) and above in some mobile environments.

Hidden Gallery for Personal Viewing
• Hides photos (image files) and videos in the gallery.

QR Code Scan
• Notify when QR code contains malicious app or malicious url with malware

Do Not Disturb
• Silence all calls, notifications and, vibrations with options you select (time or Wi-Fi AP connection)

Stop worrying about phishing URL!
• Detect malware source URL.

Call Block
• Restricts caller IDs and international calls; unwanted and unknown calls can be selectively blocked.

URL Scan
• Scan the safety of the URL you are connecting to, and manages scan targets and whtielist/blacklist.

SMS Detection
• Scan SMS to check whether it is malicious, phishing, and spam or not.

< About Device Administration >
Restrict Uninstallation Feature: To protect the device, the user can enable the ‘Restrict Uninstallation’ feature. This feature prevents malware or non-administrator user uninstallation of V3 Mobile Security. To use this feature Device Administration permission is required.

Ratings and reviews

I use to love this app for it's all in one approach. I could scan for malware, delete big files, and clean up RAM. I didn't enjoy the ads, but it was free so knew there was a trade off here. But then they removed the RAM cleaner?? My mobile phone doesn't have a ton of RAM and I needed it to make sure my phone didn't lag, and now it's just gone. Sadly it looks like I'll need to move on to another security suite.

I've been using this for quite a while, with few complaints. Mostly that when it "found" a problem, it would give a cryptic little message and insist that the identified problem app be removed. No information about what kind of threat, what kind of risk, no option to whitelist an app based on running alternate anti-malware apps and seeing no problem, and evaluating the nature of the threat and risk. Or perhaps the questionable app could be blocked, to see if updates to the app or the scanner definitions (of either V3 or the other scanners) made the "problem" go away. Two weeks ago, I got another hit. Re-scanned with other anti-malware, searched the web, found nothing. So I uninstalled. Then today, I decided to use some coronavirus lockdown time to take a harder look at alternate scanners. There used to be rumors that "security" software would throw the occasional false hit, to make users glad they had been "saved" from a problem, and keep paying the fees. Maybe this is one of those or maybe not. But in this case, the "malware" was only found by "cloud scan," not with "cloud scan" deselected. I have trouble believing that a real malware hazard couldn't be found by the updated internal scanner after two weeks, and couldn't be found by half a dozen top-rated scanners after two weeks.

Best free app to scanning and boosting my phone. Don't need to go ad free because they are small and show at the bottom versus taking up your whole screen like others do. 💝 Edit: Not happy about Booster removal, I used it a lot so my phone could charge better.

What's new

- Stabilization patch