Hypatia: Your Free Defense Against Android Malware Threats

In today's digital landscape, securing your Android device is more important than ever. With reports revealing that 11 million devices have been infected with malicious bots , ensuring the safety of your smartphone is a priority. If you're concerned about the security of your Android device, look no further than Hypatia, a free and open-source malware scanner designed specifically for Android.

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Hypatia is the world's first FOSS (Free and Open-source Software) malware scanner for Android. It is powered by ClamAV style signature databases.

Hypatia is an essential tool that empowers users to detect and eliminate potential threats. As outlined in several informative articles, you can take proactive steps to protect your device from compromise .

For a comprehensive solution that prioritizes your privacy, we highly recommend trying out Hypatia.

It is part of DivestOS, the custom Android ROM that is built to ensure the security of your Android device.

Features

• Near zero battery impact: you'll never notice any impact on battery at all
• Extremely fast: it can scan small files (1MB) in <20ms, and even large files (40MB) in 1000ms.
• Memory efficient: with the default databases enabled it uses under 120MB.
• Regular scan: allowing selection of /system, internal storage, external storage, and installed apps
• Realtime scanner: can detect malware in realtime on write/rename in internal storage
• Completely offline: Internet is only used to download signature databases, files will never ever leave your device
• Persistence: will automatically restart on boot/update
• Tiny codebase: coming in at under 1000 sloc, it can be audited by even someone with basic programming experience
• Minimal dependencies: the app only uses libraries when necessary
• Signature databases can be enabled/disabled at the users demand

Planned Features

• Option to scan on access
• Scan files via share intent
• Scan newly installed/updated apps
• Option to let 3rd-party apps invoke scans
• Automatic database updates
• Automatic database generation
• Database sanity checks
• Testing
• Better GUI
• Translations
• Scanning entire system using root (low priority)

Where to Download?

You can download it from F-Droid android store.

Hypatia | F-Droid - Free and Open Source Android App Repository

A real-time malware scanner

Free and Open Source Android App Repository

License

Hypatia is released under the GNU Affero General Public License v3.0.

Resources

• F-Droid
• Github

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