Privacy Scanner (AntiSpy) - Protect Your Privacy
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Privacy Scanner Antispy Free: A free mobile anti spy app
Are you being spied by your boss, (boy/girl) friend, spouse or friends?
Privacy Scanner Anti Spy was created to check your smartphone whether you are being spied on.
It detects parental control apps and surveillance apps that are mostly called stalkerware, which might be misused to spy on spouses or friends, using GPS-Track technologies, receive and send sms, read your contacts, read your call history, reads your calendar and so on...
Features:
+ Detects some variants of SpyBubble, eBlaster Mobile, UonMap Spy, variants of Skygofree, many parental control apps and many more surveillance apps (stalkerware)
+ Scans for apps using suspicious permissions (like access audio, access your location and so on)
+ Optionally scan using heuristics
+ Scans for anti-theft apps which might be misused to spy on you
+ Detailed description of found spy/spyware/stalker app
+ Detect apps listed as Device Administrator
+ Customize if you want to include popular apps
+ Add apps to your personal whitelist and remove apps from your whitelist
+ Free protection against spy apps
+ Simple design
+ Updates using Playstore
+ Please activate automatic updating for Privacy Scanner AntiSpy Free
What is the difference between the Pro version and the Free version?
The following features are included in the Pro version only:
+ Daily background scheduled scanning (if activated) (Pro version only)
+ Detects newly installed apps (if activated) (Pro version only)
+ Advanced heuristic engine v2.0, to detect more new and unknown spy apps and stalker apps (if activated) (Pro version only)
+ Advanced heuristic engine v2.0, to detect malicious apps pretending to be a system service (if activated) (Pro version only)
+ Search for potentially unwanted (PU) phone settings (if activated) (Pro version only)
+ Search for apps not installed through Playstore (if activated) (Pro version only)
+ Check whether your device is rooted (if activated) (Pro version only)
+ Priority updates (Pro version only)
+ Shows date and time of the last scan. (Pro version only)
+ Support the ongoing development (Pro version only)
Help/FAQ: http://lighthouse-antispy.blogspot.com/2014/10/faq.html
Trust in more than 10 years of experience in creating anti-stalker software (we started 2012).
This app is not an anti virus program, but it intents to detect stalker apps which might also be known as spyapps or parental control apps.
This app is provided by lighthouse, formerly known as HobbyApplications.
User reviews
- Works well for some users
- Easy to use interface
- No ads
- Provides good information about app permissions
- Fast scanning
- Finding issues but lacking the ability to remove them without pro version
- Scanning issues (stuck on scanning screen)
- Incomplete data in results
- Functions in the results do not work as expected (e.g., Uninstall feature)
- No detection of certain spyware on devices
- Scanning for malicious apps
- User interface
- Inability to uninstall or remove detected problems without pro version
- Issues with scanning functionality
- Request for additional features like a Wi-Fi scanner
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