Internet Security

That’s what I use but it’s usually cheaper on Amazon.

The best advise is don’t use public WiFi.

A vpn if he is buying a banking in a public space is a must. The free hotspot should would do

Kaspersky Internet Security is cheaper again, but I can’t see what the difference between the packages is

https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/B01LEI5GWI/ref=ox_sc_act_title_1?ie=UTF8&smid=AZSR40NZ6UYCN&th=1

Ed- I’d rather putins crew have my info,than our lot, given the choice.   not that I do anything wrong.

As Putin has no power over me. And I doubt my Amazon purchases is enough for them to off me.

Bob Williams wrote:

Tippon wrote:

Kaspersky Internet Security is cheaper again, but I can’t see what the difference between the packages is https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/B01LEI5GWI/ref=ox_sc_act_title_1?ie=UTF8&smid=AZSR40NZ6UYCN&th=1

That has changed since my last link, 3 devices 1yr is now £14.98. 5 devices 1 yr. is £19.75 Digital Download is more expensive. “Frustration Free Packaging” is also more expensive. I give up!

Sorry Bob, I meant the difference between Total Security on your link, and Internet Security on mine. As far as I can tell, they both cover the same things, and both include AV and a firewall, but one is £10 more expensive. I’m not even looking at the packaging options!  :wacko:

I have Total Security, have always had that since they first brought it out. There are a lot of features with it as Dave says, I use some but not others. Password Manager and Safe Money I don’t use, but delving into “More Tools” gives some stuff I do use. For some reason, Safe Money throws a wobbly at my online bank, so I just use Private Browsing and other security measures. The difference is that these features are available via the Dashboard:

I’ve got KIS on my mobile because Barclays provided it and it makes sense when I use my mobile to bank ( Follow their recommends and it’s one less chance for them to wriggle if things ever go TU!! )

There is little overhead battery wise, but it does chunter away in the background on re-starts. That’s the only time I notice it, except on the Lock Screen where it tells you KIS is protecting your device.

No need for an av on android if you only use the playstore. Android has its own AV system built in, and all the 3rd party AVs relay on the rouge library that android gives out. So the 3rd party av is always behind the android one.

Also you can’t turn the android one off, so your just burning battery life.

Now if the av has other features, then maybe it may be worth wile to the user, but still Id figure out what the feature was I wanted, and go and get an app that concentrates on doing that one task to the best of its abilites.

That’s not an android issue, but a text scam issue. Or rather a phishing text, like a phishing email. You’ll get them on any device, android, iPhone or old flip phones.

Now the question is how did such a company get the number, you have no way of knowing that, or anyway to find out. As on path android ios and even Windows, plus most services like Facebook, g+ and Instagram and a million others, you don’t have of your own phone number.

Eg-If I had you in my contacts, your address, phone number and email, I install face book, face book will ask, “would you like me to see who in your contacts also uses this servise”, most people will say yes. At this point Facebook farms all that data.

I used Fb, and given there size they now will be tightly regulated and watched, but the 1000s of other smaller servise, you don’t know what they do with thst info. This isn’t an android thing, it’s a modern Internet thing. You have no control over your privacy, if you give info to people, it will get out, no matter how well you secure your own pc and phones,and how prudent you are with permissions.

It makes me laugh when people say Im not giving Fb my info. Trust me they have it of 10s of your friends.

To minimise spam calls and text, on both android and ios, Install ‘True caller’ and ‘true messenger’ and it will filter most spam calls and messages out.

It’s not as simple as getting your freind to lock her fb profile down bob. You can have is as tight as a duck yoohoo, and it will make zero diffence.

Plus the main couple it tries days is your phones contacts, you can’t lock that down. If a freind had your info in her phone contacts, the moment she installs any app that wants to be ‘helpful’ and you accept, the majority do accept, your info along with everyones elses info from within the digital contact list, is read by the app.

So unless you 100% Trust the person you give your info to, to be analy vigilant about digital privacy and how it all works, your info will get out. Today the only way to not let your phone number and email out is to never use them, ever. Which makes having one redundant

So we have to give our numbers out, at the very least call people, which gives them your number. Or email them which give them your email address, or even write to them that gives them your physical address. If they save that info, it is 100% going to leak.

It’s an Internet issue, there is zero way around it. You just have to manage it. That is where the likes of true caller come in. Or I hate to say this where Facebook messenger comes in, you can set that to only accept messages and calls from people your friends with. So the person has to ask you to be freinds before they can contact you.

I actually love this, as it gives the recipient the power back, your basically pro actively creating a white list, in stead of being re active trying to play whak-a-mole via setting up black lists.

On FB people can contact you, but unless they are “friends” there msg get filed away and you don’t see them.

Both traditional phone calls and email is broken, all the power is with the sender, with the Facebook way the power is with the recipient. It is the way forward. I just wish it wasn’t with FB. But Mark my words in 10 years FB will be the biggest communication network in the world. A yellow pages of tomorrow. All without needed in to lay a single phone line. They will dominate the industry, and the carriers are terrified of them