I only want to know if mobile antivirus programs work or not. Those useful features are not the topic of this thread. I understand that mobile antivirus programs have additional features, such as finding lost phones and wiping data remotely. I'm assuming if an app is downloaded from a 3rd party source (not Google Play, Amazon, F-droid) such as directly from a website, the app can be scanned on download although I'm not 100% sure of that. I also read that the only effective scanning of apps by a mobile AV is when the app is side loaded as opposed to downloaded from Google Play. From the info I come across, the main concern about mobile antivirus programs is that apps downloaded from the Google Play store cannot be scanned on download and once installed cannot interfere with other apps (or be interfered with by an AV) because of the Android sandboxing features. I have been reading on this topic for a while and am getting all sorts of conflicting answers.
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