Smartphones

[batterie]

Hello out there,

here some question to the frequent user.

1) do you consider avast! a recommendable antivirus app ?

I get a popup message from it, saying that malware is found in the apps:

"News&Weather" v3.0.6978 and Google Play Store are said to contain Trojans. Further, under avast! malware info, it lists Chrome and Google-Search as affected by 'unwanted programs' PUP.

Wouldn't that more likely indicate that avast! is mistaken and better be disinstalled ? As it isn't part of the preinstalled apps anyway.

Suggestion of another, probably more reliable, app appreciated.

2) how comes that my camera gets activated - every other time i pull the smarty out of my jeans front pocket- probably pressing unintentionally power on/off and/or volume button:

just a thought - I am aware that with the cam app already active - the volume button can be (un/intentionally) be pressed to take a picture. But then, the cam app shouldn't get activated unintentionally in the first place, while extracting the phone from the pocket, right?

Can there be done something to resolve the nuisance - disable something to avoid this behaviour?

-3) I'd like to set a shortcut (Windows desktop terminology) in form of a app like icon on the homescreen. To be able to go right to a specific directory, file or webpage.

Can we, how to?

Recommendations, experiences welcome!

[batterie]

wrt topic 3)  the usual Windows terminology is = "desktop shortcut"

[IronFly]

Personally i never used an antivirus on every android version, since 1.5 but i also never downloaded cracked or untrusted applications from the web.

about the camera problem i don't why has this behaviour.

about folder shortcuts, you can do it, downloading from Google play a file manager called "ES strongs file"

[batterie]

Hello,

I downloaded the avast! app from Google Play Store, disinstalled it after the said messages popped up. Woudn't know about any untrusted or cracked apps on the phone - Google News & Weather ? Google Play has a app called "Ol File Manager" which too seems to be nice for the purpose, thanks for tipps.

[IronFly]

Sometimes antiviruses gave false positives, don't worry about acer apps and downloaded apps from google play.

If you need a file manager, a really good one is ES strong file explorer