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and in structure of garfin manager Authority what's going on everybody and I'm here with Tony who is with avg and they're going to show us not only a 2g itself on Android but also to new products that they've released very recently did what they today or this week oh this week yes okay well we're here at ctia released avg cleaner and avg image shrinker well why don't we go through those two first let's talk about the image shrinker well the image drink is really really interesting you know how how you collect all those photographs on a mobile phone you know and then you're going to post some of them onto photo sharing site so i might be able to a social networking site you know what we allow you to do is shrink the image down before you actually post it so one it's you could delete the original if you don't want the high-quality image so we're saving you space on the device the more importantly we're actually saving in bandwidth on your data plan yes you're actually being allowed to monitor that slightly better and when you shrink it we give you a choice of the quality that you actually want to shrink it to as we put the choice back in your hands you'll see I'm given a select size so i can now choose what size I want to actually push to push this down to now this is going to make it easier for me to upload to a photo sharing or a social networking site I can yeah and it's going to it's going to allow me to also save bandwidth yeah on my data plan so i can actually turn us out i'm only going to put this on the web so i'm going to put this into small mode yeah and i could delete the original here as well if i want so if it's if that's all I'm ever going to use the picture for yeah that's a good format to keep it in and it's safe storage on the device and there we are I've shrunk it down so you can see also how much of it I shrunk down and then you can see where i can actually post it to so i could email it or i could put it on any of the the photo sharing sites that i've got here as well wonderful so that would be the image shrinker how about avg cleaner yvg cleaner you know you're not take our car to the garage every six months we get our oil change to get that get that rubbish out of the bottom of the engine that avg cleaner is exactly that way yeah your device accumulates cache files temporary files and files from in the past installations etc and things you've deleted yeah what cleaner does is go through those and remove them all for you it's already calculated that on this device yeah it can save 134 megabytes of memory and we say so but just by cleaning that off it will make the device a little bit more efficient yes it so i can i can actually click on one click on here i can see what applications are causing it and i can clean all the caches yeah I don't I'd rather not do that so so the next person that comes along I can demonstrate it with that in there as well and you can schedule that to happen on a timely basis so it automatically watch them out of the device freeing up space and making the device sir perform a bit better Oh wonderful all right well coming into avg for Android you guys mentioned to me that avg is now the most downloaded application for antivirus on android and matt a question for you again I think it'd be worth it to hear from someone in the industry about is Android well okay that's right this way I guess a lot of people do want to have that extra protection but what you say Android is a vulnerable operating system oh by nature is an open OS you're susceptible to attack now if you look at platforms as they grow what you'll see is once a platform gets over a certain market share it becomes interesting to the bad guys what you got to remember as five years ago or five or ten years ago it was kind of about disruption so the bad guys are writing the blue screen viruses and malware yeah now they write it to make money so they want to covertly install something on your device they want to steal your identity or take some money off you now are on a mobile platform as that's there's an easy monetization route because if i write a piece of malware and i can send a premium rate SMS yeah i can directly monetize well that's actually much simpler than writing it on a pc see it's a more susceptible platform but because it's open a bit because it's open we see all those app developers out there writing great apps as well so you know it it just means consumers need to be aware of the risk and instill some security software let us take yeah let us look after that piece one question that it just came up into my mind just now I understand that and row of course Android is a platform that's available across so many different devices and it may be pretty easy to take care of you know securing it but is there a difference in securing a let's say a stock Android experience as opposed to say a samsung touchwiz or an HTC type of user interface no I mean the skin that a certain manufacturer puts on top of the android OS doesn't really affect us because we are we're working below that level so for example if you're downloading an app from an app store we're actually checking the APK APK up in the cloud yeah so before it hits the device so we're kind of before that you know or deeper down in the OS than that and it's never posed a problem at all not that i know of no i mean we might have some user interface issues i've never heard of any but who knows okay i'm coming to you live from ctia 2013 this is pepco mobile focus and we're going to go through with avg Tony just before I sign off thank you very much for your time thank you Joe all right