Mobile internet company Spice will be launching ‘Secure Android’, a service that provides pre-embedded security solutions to its users in their range of MI (Mobile Internet) smart phones.

A press statement said that the solutions offered by Spice will include an antivirus that will provide real time protection from Internet threats. It will also offer flexibility for the user to set a schedule for regular scans of data in the device as well as the memory card. According to the statement, the service also has features like anti-theft and vault- privacy lock for apps.

“Only a fraction of smartphones and tablets are protected by security software, despite a rise in the amount of malware targeted at mobile devices,” Mr Kunal Ahooja, Global Head – Devices, S Mobility said in the statement.

According to the statement, approximately six hundred varieties of mobile phone viruses and they exist in smartphones alone.

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