But seriously, the best feature of avast is that you can uninstall the anti-virus-privacy-management-control-meter component after you install the anti-theft and just keep the important part (hidden of course)

I don’t really like running AV software, but I think it’s better to be safe than sorry given the vast variety of insidious attacks out there. I sideload apps (Volume+, Firefox Nightly, etc.) and it’s not inconceivable that 1 of them could be hijacked as an attack vector.

I hope they fixed the background crashes in this version.

I installed Lookout Mobile Security and Anti-Virus and tried that instead.

Lookout doesn’t lag my phone even one bit. Nor has it ever consumed an inordinate amount of battery. It has just the right features and they all work great without hogging any phone resources at all. Lookout even found my phone — almost to the literal exact spot — when I set it down it and then lost it on a day outing once.

I [idiotically] had left it on the grass at a large regional park here in San Diego while we were playing some Frisbee and forgot about it when we left. I didn’t notice until about 2 hours later when we were at the coast having an early dinner. I locked up my phone via my son’s cell phone and then did a locate via my son’s cell phone right from the restaurant table. Within moments Lookout directed me to within just a few feet of where my phone was sitting in the grass at the park. My phone was completely locked with a security code, located, and retrieved in less than 30 minutes. I was greatly relieved.

So, I’ve stayed with Lookout Mobile Security and I haven’t looked back since. Lookout is an excellent Android phone security app.