Antiviruses in Android do not have the great relevance as happens in a platform such as a PC, where it is known, that in certain versions of Windows, security holes appear from anywhere, such as that Flash player that makes theirs, so that certain companies enter the computers of certain users and then sell that privileged information they obtain.
As we are a little more secure in Android at the moment, it is always interesting to have an extra layer of security that allows us to check if we have any malicious files that try to stay in the system memory to wake up in a moment and do their thing. One of those applications that can come in handy for its set of features is 360 Security. 360 Security is an app that apart from keeping the system safe and free of complications, tries to optimize it to get even more out of it and not slow us down.
A lifetime antivirus with a little extra
360 Security is at its core a lifelong antivirus that comes with a good set of features. These include a real-time scan of all apps and files in order to find certain problems, a scanner to perform a manual one and can detect adware, malware, Trojans and more. It has update of its virus database from the cloud, so it contains all the basics that are expected of a service like this.
Apart from its features to keep the system clean of viruses, 360 Security has a cleaning function to search for junk files on the device. It will take care of cleaning all those that do not have a precise function, resulting in more space available to use for multimedia content. Here we also have the ability to uninstall apps that are not used to save space and conserve battery by not letting us have an extra background process.
It has an app closing function, but we recommend that you use the list of exceptions so that the most used ones do not have to be restarting every time you pass this tool. We already spoke recently about how this type of functionality is more harmful than beneficial, but hey, on certain occasions it can be good for us to access one immediately.
More features apart from being an antivirus
We can have a good set of apps for certain functionalities. One of those that we can save with 360 Security is the blocking of apps. With this feature, we can block access to various apps to prevent access to them with an unlock pattern.
Another related to blocking is about notifications from various apps. A feature that is created on top of that of Lollipop and Marshmallow, but we have it directly from this app in order to configure which apps will show their notifications and save them.
We also have other small virtues such as blocking phone calls and SMS from assigned phone numbers, an application manager to uninstall apps, a data usage monitor to set limits as we have in the Android system itself and search functionality of my phone.
The best thing about this app is its suite of features that encompass security on the device and its design in the visual aspect that follows the patterns seen in Material Design. Although, if we could remove something from the app, it would be that process shutdown that can be a bigger problem if a user does not know how harmful it can be for battery life if they do not know how to configure it properly.
There are several alternatives that do almost the same as 360 Security, so if you are used to relegating security to your phone in an app of this type, you will not lose anything by trying it since it is available for free from the Play Store. With more than 100 million downloads and a score of 4.6, it shows that there are many users who have been helped by its string of options and features to keep the system very clean.