The Daily App: Quick Heal for Android

The market for Android security apps will likely keep expanding, and the challenge will be to find Android security apps that stand out.

Quick Heal for Android provides one differentiator: simplicity. Whether on a tablet or smartphone, Quick Heal – by developer Quick Heal Technologies – provides baseline levels of anti-virus protection. The simplicity comes from the one-button signature update, as well as one-button call blocking and one-button SMS blocking that may provide quick-and-easy handling of functions you’ll need.

Quick Heal Technologies, based in India, is almost 20 years old and provides security products for a number of different platforms, Android being the latest. The company also provides an AV engine for OEMs.

On Android, its anti-virus options are simple as well: you can set the app to repair or delete a virus when found, or tell the app when it should delete files that have been quarantined.

There is also a one-button anti-virus scan.

A 30-day trial is free. A full version is available as a $12 download from the Android Market.

End-point, mobile security on the Android platform, generally, remains a work in progress. Many will choose an Android security solution from a vendor which also provides their PC security. In this case, a 30-day trial may be fine for testing whether the simplicity provided in Quick Heal is the right touch for an individual’s usage.