Ive been using Norton on my windows pcs for centuries. They Norton include a license offer for iPhones now should I install it? is it safe without viruses to use a Norton product to protect an iPhone?
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iPhone 14 Pro Max Do I need Norton Antivirus on iPhone?
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I wouldn’t bother. It’ll only munch your battery in the background doing basically nothing. Viruses on iOS are of little concern.
Yes you need all the antivirii products actually. Install them all.
No. Do not install antivirus products on any of your devices. Not even your PCs. All the lot of them are resource hogs that take over your system like Japanese knotweed and are just as nightmarish to completely remove. The only thing I ever recommended, even years ago, was Malwarebytes scanner. And that still stands. That and stop being so gullible at clicking "you have won $1M click here" links, and stop downloading p**n and hacked software from questionable websites.
Sadly it sounds like there's no way back for your PC. But at least don't cripple your phone with the same sh*te.
Sadly it sounds like there's no way back for your PC. But at least don't cripple your phone with the same sh*te.
Don’t use Norton as others have said on any of your devices. Honestly the built in Windows Defender is decent these days.
Malwarbytes is the only other tool I’d touch, all the others are almost more annoying/intrusive than actual malware…
Though that’s only when I’m using my PC, on Mac/iOS I’ve never thought about it and don’t really see how it would even work on iOS since everything is sandboxed.
Malwarbytes is the only other tool I’d touch, all the others are almost more annoying/intrusive than actual malware…
Though that’s only when I’m using my PC, on Mac/iOS I’ve never thought about it and don’t really see how it would even work on iOS since everything is sandboxed.
Another vote for Windows Defender which is all I have used for years now and never had a problem. Who should know how to avoid viruses better than the people who made windows!
There's an iPhone version now? That's hilarious
Whole market of genuinely-ignorant / easily-fooled / technologically-anxious consumers to sell their resource-hogging knotweed to. Quite how it will work at all on a system which locksdown app privileges and sandboxes everything, is a mystery.
Isn't the iPhone protection basically a VPN? I don't think antivirus apps are possible on iPhone due to sandboxing, so they essentially try and encrypt and protect your internet traffic instead?
Eye Phones are secure, and if a crack in the armor is found Apple is extremely quick with security downloads. An antivirus is unnecessary.
Your phone can be hacked, but largely only by nation state type actors. And Norton would do anything about these attacks anyway.
So, unless you are a journo, politician, CEO or other "whale", just be smart about where you visit and don't worry about it.
So, unless you are a journo, politician, CEO or other "whale", just be smart about where you visit and don't worry about it.