The Daily App: Lookout Mobile Security

Lookout's eponymous security app is a free and simple download from the Android Market onto a device.

It is easy to set up, navigate and use. While it’s kind of sad that even your phone could need antivirus software, Lookout does its best to take the sting out of it.

A device scan will check for spyware and malware, and the app provides a "Privacy Advisor" that will let a user know what tracking software is on a device.

On one device, Lookout told us that we had 10 apps that tracked our location, 10 apps that could read our identity information, one app that could access our text messages and six apps that had access to our contact list. None were malicious apps, but a couple of them we needed to examine more closely to determine why, exactly, that app needed access to certain sets of data.