A few days ago when I was discussing
Best Android security app
for use on your android i insist on avast! Anti-Theft features (that’s how they like to write their name). I have used and reviewed many free and paid
Anti-theft app
available on the Play Store, but I have to say that no one seems to do it better than avast!.
Recently, I received a complaint that setting up avast! Anti-Theft is very complicated but when using this app I realized that people consider avast! details are complex. So today I’m going to talk about the process of setting up and using avast! Anti-Theft feature on your mobile phone easily. This is the Android app we’re talking about so the tutorial is limited to Android devices only.
Set up Anti-Theft on avast! in Android
When you launch avast! Mobile Security for the first time you will be asked to configure the anti-theft module. After you accept and start the setup process, your phone will be checked for system dependencies like internet connection etc. Once the test is successful, the process will begin.
The next thing the app will ask you is if you want to run the app as the root user. If you have root access on your device, tick the Factory settings option to get some extra perks from the app. For the tutorial, I will use the non-root installation, but we will talk about the root features from time to time.
Now here’s the fun thing: the app will ask you for the name of a dummy app to download for your mobile phone. It will be avast! The Anti-Theft app itself, but with fake names and icons to fool prying eyes. You can name yourself or ask avast! support you. After you confirm, the app will download and install the custom app for your phone.
Once you’ve installed the custom app, you can close avast! Mobile Securities and open fake app to control Anti-Theft features. Now you can go ahead and set up some basic settings like device name, password to be used for security and authentication in remote commands, phone number of friends to receive notifications , etc. After setting these settings, you can go ahead and switch back to anti-theft.
In the advanced settings, you can configure the behavior of your phone when it is lost or stolen. You can configure lock screen notifications, USB debugging settings, GPS behavior. Root users will get some extra settings here like full wipe and factory reset. Root users can also install apps as a system partition.
So it’s all about the phone setup. Now let’s see how to use it in the unfortunate event that your phone is lost or stolen.
Use avast! Anti-theft to recover your lost Android phone
Use avast! after the phone is stolen it will be a bit of a hassle because you will no longer have access to your phone and you will have to control it with some SMS commands. The first thing the phone will do when it detects a SIM change is it will lock the phone and SMS all the details to two of the friend numbers configured in the app.
avast! there is a long list of commands that can be used to control the device remotely and the best thing to do is to memorize them. They’re actually not that hard to remember. They all start with avast! password (the one you set up when configuring the app) and followed by simple words like LOST, TRACKING, etc. You can find all the SMS commands on the official avast! product page. Bookmarking would be a prudent thing to do.
Conclusion
Obviously, we all hope that there will never be a time when we have to use this app. But then, life isn’t always hunky dory, is it? When not, apps like this are a silver lining among the dark clouds.
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