Simple Tips to Avoid Malware and Viruses When Downloading Android Apps

Simple Tips to Avoid Malware and Viruses When Downloading Android Apps – There are times when you want to download apps from outside the Google Play Store. But it is common knowledge that on the internet a lot of dangerous websites contain viruses and malware.

With the lure of free applications, usually web owners insert viruses and malware in the applications you want to download. Well, you can use this method before downloading applications from outside Google Play.

Simple Tips to Avoid Malware and Viruses When Downloading Android Apps

To be able to do this, you have to copy the download link. Remember, the download link, not the website link that provides the application download file.

For example, when you want to download a file, right-click and select “Copy link address” from the download button on the website.

Once the download link is copied to the clipboard, open a new tab in Chrome and then access VirusTotal.com. Enter the link in the column provided. Click enter.

Then VirusTotal will download the APK file to their server. After that, VirusTotal will scan it using many different antivirus engines.

If someone else recently scanned the file, VirusTotal will immediately show you the results.

If you see the description “No engines detected this URL” it means that none of the antivirus engines have detected a virus in the file.

While the number 0/65 means 0 viruses or malware found by TotalVirus.com’s 65 antivirus engines.

Well, the following is an example of a file that has a virus. VirusTotal.com will display the number of viruses and malware found in the file you want to download.

Well, that’s a simple way that you can apply to download APK files to make it safer. Besides being able to be used when you want to download APKs, VirusTotal.com can also be used to scan various kinds of files, ranging from exe, docx, and many more.

Oh yes. If you want something simpler, you can use VirusTotal add-ons and extensions in your browser. Currently VirusTotal has extensions and add-ons for Google Chrome, Mozilla Firefox.

This way, you can think twice before downloading files that VirusTotal says are dangerous. So, it could be a little safer. Especially if you’re using, um, Windows.