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What is everyone using for an antivirus on their smart tv and android streaming box?
I have a Samsung TV, Nivida Shield Pro streaming box and Windows 11 laptop.
I have Surfshark VPN and Advast anti virus on my laptop, just Surfshark VPN on the Nivida Shield and nothing on the Samsung TV.

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Malwarebytes.

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I only use windows defender on pc’s and never encountered any issues.
Malwarebytes is decent software.
Never installed any antivirus software on any of the android devices I have owned or smart TVs and never encountered an issue in all the years I’ve been using them.
I do check APK’s if they are from third party sources.

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What do you use to check a APK before you install them?

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I’ve never used any antivirus, malware scanner, cleaning tools, etc on any of my Android boxes and never had an issue. On my windows laptops I use Trend Micro Internet Security

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I use Malwarebytes but like @Avid08 and @MarkxG I have never installed any virus scanners on my Android devices and have never had any issues.

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I have been able to get Virus Total to work on my PC but have not been able to figure it out on the Nivida Shield.

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You only have to check the apk in virustotal on your pc and then you know it is safe to install on any device you choose.

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So you download the apk to a memory stick.
Scan it with Virustotal on the PC.
Then put the stick in the Nivida Shield.
Use X-Plore to install it.

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Yes of just download directly to your pc or phone android or iOS and check the apk on their website
You could open a browser on your Android tv device and use the virustotal website to check the apk that way.
Either of the ways I have mentioned are fine.

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Same here, my Microsoft Go comes with Defender I searched for Defender in the store for my Android V-11 phone and it was available. Like yourself I’ve never seen anything on my phone before, so I installed it and it scans automatically everyday and you can select a manual scan. I installed rapid streamz and defender gave a notification that it was malware and removed it. So from what I have seen so far I could highly recommend it and it was free

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