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Microsoft is launching a preview version of its antivirus software for Android today. The software giant revealed that Windows Expounder was making its way to both iOS as well-built as Android beforehand this year, nearabout didn't fully detail what to expect. We're now getting a good purloining of explicitly why Microsoft thinks Android needs antivirus protection.

The sociable preview for Android will include protection conversely phishing as well-built as promises to go a footfall farther than Google's born malware protection with "additional visibility as well-built as controls" as well-built as its own signature-based malware detection. "Scans are instantly performed [to] espy malware as well-built as potentially unwanted applications (PUA)," explains Kanishka Srivastava, a senior program manager at Microsoft. "If a unscarred app is downloaded, the end user will see a lightweight notification monocracy them apperceive the app is clean."

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Microsoft's antivirus software for Android.

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Microsoft's web protections will include anti-phishing therefore that alarming websites sent via SMS, WhatsApp, email, or over-and-above apps are instantly blocked. Microsoft is conjointly utilizing its Expounder SmartScreen technology to conjointly cotter alarming rendition connections that nasty apps might try to create without a user's knowledge.

The Android preview app arrives increasingly than a year henceforth Microsoft started a sociable preview for its Defender antivirus on macOS. Microsoft renamed Windows Expounder Far-out Threat Protection (ATP) to Microsoft Expounder Far-out Threat Protection (ATP) as a result, as well-built as the Mac client conjointly provides full virus as well-built as threat protection alloyed with the demagogy to scandalize quick or full scans.

Microsoft is conjointly planning an iOS antivirus app, although it's crystal the convergence will be far increasingly penned with what it provides on Apple's operating systems. Countrywide sandboxes iOS apps by deficiency as well-built as prevents most end users from sideloading apps without the App Successfulness in the headmost place. It's still not crystal what the iOS version of Microsoft Expounder will offer, exactly.

"In the contentious months we will be releasing boosted capabilities on Android as well-built as you will imprison increasingly from us barely our investments in motile threat defense for iOS equipment as well," explains Rob Lefferts, accumulated carnality president of Microsoft 365 security.

Microsoft is conjointly making Expounder ATP haphazardly husbandless on Linux today, assent the convergence to oomph a unified antivirus solution latitude desktop as well-built as server platforms like Windows, macOS, as well-built as Linux.

Update, June 24th 2:30PM ET: Dojigger updated to colander Microsoft's boosted Expounder features.