Honor Pad X9 - Cant change permission for Avast

ian16527

Wife was looking at Facebook and the Windows virus threat scam came up. Not sure what to do so reset the pad, and installed Avast  app but the pad will not let me change the app permissions to allow it to scan the files. Its just greyed out.

Being a technophobe no idea why it wont let me do this.

Vitor

The pre-installed Google Play Protect is fine for Android protection.  I wouldn't try and force a 3rd party AV on the system.

born_again

ian16527 said:

Wife was looking at Facebook and the Windows virus threat scam came up. Not sure what to do so reset the pad, and installed Avast  app but the pad will not let me change the app permissions to allow it to scan the files. Its just greyed out.

Being a technophobe no idea why it wont let me do this.

On a Android system?

ian16527

born_again said:

ian16527 said:

Wife was looking at Facebook and the Windows virus threat scam came up. Not sure what to do so reset the pad, and installed Avast  app but the pad will not let me change the app permissions to allow it to scan the files. Its just greyed out.

Being a technophobe no idea why it wont let me do this.

On a Android system?

Yes android

SiliconChip

How do you expect a Windows virus to affect your Android tablet? As @vitor has already said there is no need for any additional AV product to be installed, even more so when the virus you're concerned about can't possibly impact you.

ian16527

Yes very true -  Its presence alerted me to put some virus protection on the tablet if anything else came through from Facebook. Or am I worrying about nothing and the tablet cannot be infected with any virus pardon my ignorance of these things - been watching too much about it on the BBC?

SiliconChip said:

How do you expect a Windows virus to affect your Android tablet? As @vitor has already said there is no need for any additional AV product to be installed, even more so when the virus you're concerned about can't possibly impact you.

Vitor

Android mobis and tablets (but maybe not Amazon's Fire ones) are already protected by Google's Play Protect