Virus and malware for smartphones could become an increasingly serious problem in the future. Indeed one of the first things I would suggest to you when buying a new computer is to install a good antivirus software that can protect your computer from viruses and malware itself of all kinds.

Given that smartphones are “small computers”, in addition to making phone calls, we also allow you to go online, read and write email, download the app and do many other things, it is normal that you must have a degree of protection even from this point of view.

Tom Parsons, manager of Symantec, the makers of the popular Norton antivirus software, says that the current situation of malware for smartphones is the same that was in the PC industry nearly 15 years ago, but we all know how they evolved, during these years, viruses and risks for our operating systems.

The same will happen for smartphones, especially from the moment you start using daily functions such as NFC, Near Field Communication, which can be used day after day to make payments online instead of credit cards. Here is that the risks are multiplied.

Surely companies will also touch achievers operating systems to do their part in this struggle, giving, among other things, certain users to download app “clean” from viruses and other malware. From this point of view, Android is an operating system more vulnerable, less sure of IOS . It is not the first time they say that Google should do something about it. The architecture of the giant free Mountian View has decided to leave its developers, while it is good to ensure a faster development and deployment of the operating system itself, and also leads to numerous risks, related to lack of effective control over the app that will “upload” from the developers themselves.