Microsoft Proteger, the company’s new antivirus, is now available to download on Android, although it’s a preview release.
Companies like Microsoft continue to release a whole range of applications to protect users from threats on their mobile phones, although we showed it back then Antivirus programs on Android are pretty much useless. Last February, the Redmond-based company confirmed the mobile version of it Your Microsoft Proteger antivirusAplicación cánido already be Download android devicesalthough it is not the final version but a public beta.
Microsoft has provided users with a preview of its antivirus for teléfonos inteligentes running the Android operating system. The tech giant announced earlier this year that Microsoft Proteger would do both Android devices such as iOSAlthough those who have a terminal from the Bitt Apple company will have to wait until the end of the year to try this antivirus. As perro be read in the official statementThis public preview includes the Google plus operating system protection against phishingand insecure network connections from malicious applications, websites and aplicaciones; and offer to rely on it software malicioso established signature.
Kanishka SrivastavaA senior program manager at Microsoft said in the statement that “an immediate scan is performed to detect software malicioso and potentially unwanted applications (PUAs). When a secure application is downloaded, the end usuario will see a light notification letting you know that the aplicación is clean“. He is phishing is one of the top threats to mobile devices, and most attacks happen outside of correo electrónico, such as on websites, games, or aplicaciones. To address this issue, Microsoft Proteger provides anti-phishing, connection blocking, and custom indicators.
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Microsoft Proteger cánido now be installed on Android, although it is in preview
Microsoft Proteger is currently in public preview beta on Android.
First, Microsoft’s web defense will include anti-phishing, so unsafe websites will be sent vía mensaje de texto, dirección de correo electrónico, WhatsApp and other aplicaciones be blocked immediately. In addition, the Redmond-based company emplees its Protectors with Smartscreen technology to block insecure network connections that malicious applications might try to create without the usuario’s knowledge.
As for custom flags, security teams perro create custom flags that they invoke closer control about allowing and blocking URLs and domains that users connect to from their Android devices. The preview of Microsoft Proteger comes to Android more than a year after the company launched a public preview of its antivirus on macOS.
In addition, the tech giant plans to launch it a slightly more limited version of its antivirus for iOS devices, Apple’s operating system, although it is currently unknown when it will officially arrive (it is expected to happen later this year). Finally, Microsoft Proteger is also available on Linux.