About this app

Mobile Shield: Security is a vision, to have a tool that would protect your device against mobile security threats out in the world. Mobile Shield helps secure your device by assisting the user in understanding his device privacy. It provides the user with different dashboards outlining the risk and benefits of all application in his device. It is bundled with tools like junk file cleaner, known malicious app analyzer, knowledge base, and device root checker.

Key features:
- Analyzes user-installed or system application to review their access level to the device.
- View details about specific access permissions of an application.
- Get Mobile Shield's risk rating of each installed application, with user usage info.
- Analyze and clean junk files.
- Detect known malicious applications.
- Check if your device is rooted.
- Learn more about why mobile security is important.

Application Permissions Security Analyzer:
This dashboard analyzes the user's device to identify all application and list the access permissions of those applications. Our application then uses complex algorithms to risk rank the application along with the frequency of usage, the size on disk and much more. This helps the user to locate apps that are high risk and less frequently used. It helps the user in making a decision which applications are not required and can be removed.

Secure Disk Cleaner:
This utility will allow the user to analyze for junk files on the device and free up disk space.

Known Malicious App(s) Detector:
Through our extensive research, we have assembled a list of malicious application that can be harmful to your device, our application looks for these known malicious applications and alerts you if any matches are found.

Root Security Checker:
Wondering whether your device is root and criminals have access to it? We have a utility that can test that for you. Just press a button and know if your device is rooted.

Security Knowledgebase:
We believe the most critical defense for security is educating the user, the more the user knows how to detect malicious activity the safer this world would be. Our knowledgebase helps empower the user to understand why mobile security is important.

New features

Key features:
- Analyzes user-installed or system application to review their access level to the device.
- View details about specific access permissions of an application.
- Get Mobile Shield's risk rating of each installed application, with user usage info.
- Analyze and clean junk files.
- Detect known malicious applications.
- Check if your device is rooted.
- Learn more about why mobile security is important.

App Permissions

Allows applications to access information about networks.
Allows applications to open network sockets.
Allows an application to write to external storage.
Allows an application to read from external storage.
Allows an application to find out the space used by any package.
Allows an application to clear the caches of all installed applications on the device.
Allows using PowerManager WakeLocks to keep processor from sleeping or screen from dimming.
Allows an application to collect component usage statistics
Declaring the permission implies intention to use the API and the user of the device can grant permission through the Settings application.
Allows an application to delete cache files.
Allows an application to request deleting packages.