Best phone security?

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FallenFreya

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Hello all.

What do you think is the best phone security app this year?

Mine is nearly up, and wondering what I should go for, and I'm not great with technology.

Thank you for your help.
 
Umm to be honest, - there is none, there are though ways to be more secure, in a digitally connected world nothing is completely secure.

If you are on Android, you can do multiple things to be relatively safe

1) download apps only via play store, once a week click verify (it is there in update area)
2) if you have double security login options enable those
3) use different + complex passwords for banking, gaming, email, and social sites
4) Change banking and gaming passwords often. (both can trigger purchases)
5) Do not use unprotected or unknown wifi systems
6) Many might feel using a VPN is a safer bet. VPN is like your shield, though they too get hacked. A paid VPN is the only option if you still want one, free VPN is useless.
7) When you install an app, it asks for permissions, check what permissions it wants. If those permissions seem too intrusive avoid the apps.
8) Related to point 7, under settings of your phone you can see what permissions are given to already installed apps, check those up.
9) Do not download or open attachments in your email from unknown sources.
10) Anti-virus on phones is too much of bloatware, if you following most of the points from 1-9 (listed above) you do not need anti-virus.
 
What about protcting myself on this site? Since I've been here, I've been getting a lot of emails from other sites, dodgy dating apps etc. I never open them, and always delete immediately.

This site often tries to open up another window to the adverts it displays. Are they a risk?
I do close them immediately.
 
Pinguu said:
Umm to be honest, - there is none, there are though ways to be more secure, in a digitally connected world nothing is completely secure.

If you are on Android, you can do multiple things to be relatively safe

1) download apps only via play store, once a week click verify (it is there in update area)
2) if you have double security login options enable those
3) use different + complex passwords for banking, gaming, email, and social sites
4) Change banking and gaming passwords often. (both can trigger purchases)
5) Do not use unprotected or unknown wifi systems
6) Many might feel using a VPN is a safer bet. VPN is like your shield, though they too get hacked. A paid VPN is the only option if you still want one, free VPN is useless.
7) When you install an app, it asks for permissions, check what permissions it wants. If those permissions seem too intrusive avoid the apps.
8) Related to point 7, under settings of your phone you can see what permissions are given to already installed apps, check those up.
9) Do not download or open attachments in your email from unknown sources.
10) Anti-virus on phones is too much of bloatware, if you following most of the points from 1-9 (listed above) you do not need anti-virus.
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Thank you.

What is bloatware?
 
FallenFreya said:
What about protcting myself on this site? Since I've been here, I've been getting a lot of emails from other sites, dodgy dating apps etc. I never open them, and always delete immediately.

This site often tries to open up another window to the adverts it displays. Are they a risk?
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The Pop-ups are advertisement part, so that is something one needs to live with. They are rather just embarrassing as such. See browsers store data, and they store them locally e.g. on your phone. most "social" apps get that browser data and thus when pop up happen on your browser, it stores a tiny bit of information - "Freya does not mind Adult/matured content", that information gets circulated digitally as tiny bits, (not like your identity just that such and such device does not mind adult/matured content". Then other "marketeers" who want to reach out to the "open-minded" audience their ads reach to you.

what you can do are a couple of things, though they seem bit long-drawn for regular usage. a) clear browser cache and history, frequently this can reduce the number by a bit, b) once you have cleared all browser data+cache, use browser always in incognito mode. if you do that then information "technically" should not get stored and again reduce the number of "friendly" marketing offers.

However, every time you wipe your browser clean or use it in incognito mode, most of your passwords disappear and so you got to remember all those. (Thus I said tough for regular usage)

99.99% of pop-ups, if closed, not clicked are harmless advertising, more about embarrassment quotient than a risk. However, still, complex+different passwords along with double security log in are a must nowadays.

Bloatware - is a program that runs in the background. They tend to eat up any machine ram+processor speeds and make a device sluggish.

Most Welcome

I am not a technical/IT person, I am more of a curious geek, if someone else got better thought to it, do add.
 
Pinguu said:
The Pop-ups are advertisement part, so that is something one needs to live with. They are rather just embarrassing as such. See browsers store data, and they store them locally e.g. on your phone. most "social" apps get that browser data and thus when pop up happen on your browser, it stores a tiny bit of information - "Freya does not mind Adult/matured content", that information gets circulated digitally as tiny bits, (not like your identity just that such and such device does not mind adult/matured content". Then other "marketeers" who want to reach out to the "open-minded" audience their ads reach to you.

what you can do are a couple of things, though they seem bit long-drawn for regular usage. a) clear browser cache and history, frequently this can reduce the number by a bit, b) once you have cleared all browser data+cache, use browser always in incognito mode. if you do that then information "technically" should not get stored and again reduce the number of "friendly" marketing offers.

However, every time you wipe your browser clean or use it in incognito mode, most of your passwords disappear and so you got to remember all those. (Thus I said tough for regular usage)

99.99% of pop-ups, if closed, not clicked are harmless advertising, more about embarrassment quotient than a risk. However, still, complex+different passwords along with double security log in are a must nowadays.

Bloatware - is a program that runs in the background. They tend to eat up any machine ram+processor speeds and make a device sluggish.

Most Welcome

I am not a technical/IT person, I am more of a curious geek, if someone else got better thought to it, do add.
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Thank you again, you've put my mind a little more at ease.
 
FallenFreya said:
What about protcting myself on this site? Since I've been here, I've been getting a lot of emails from other sites, dodgy dating apps etc. I never open them, and always delete immediately.

This site often tries to open up another window to the adverts it displays. Are they a risk?
I do close them immediately.
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FCN doesn't spam you or give out your email. You must have given your email elsewhere.

Popups and popunders are just ads, nothing more. Depending on what sorts of websites you visit, you may encounter undesirable cookies. Clearing cookies and cache once in a while may help.

Some privacy tips:
https://www.freechatnow.com/forum/threads/internet-safety-and-privacy-101.19268
 
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