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per minute and 8.5 cents per minute to a UK
mobile. Viber calls to a UK landline cost 1.8
cents per minute and 5.4 cents per minute to
a mobile. Google Hangouts call charges are 1
cent per minute to a UK Landline and between
3 and 5 cents per minute to a UK mobile. Call
rates to other countries are easily found on
Google – just search for Skype calling rates, or
Viber calling rates etc.
So if you call friends abroad or even in this
country, you should be looking at these systems
if you don’t already have them. You could save
a great deal of money.
Smart Phone Safety
Most of us today have mobile phones that do
far more than simply make phone calls. We
can surf the internet, send and receive emails,
download eBooks to read using one of the
many apps, download and play games, check
the news and the weather and much more. But
are you aware that your phone can be infected
with viruses and other malware in the same way
that your computer can?
Malware on your phone can send
emails pretending to be from you, log
keystrokes (the recording of every key that you
press) so that when you connect to your bank
they can discover your passwords. Malware
can also cause your phone to call premium
numbers, allow an external user to call abroad
via your phone, and at your expense and much
more.
It is most important to have protection
installed to help ward off these threats.
Just as with PCs and Macs there
are several free and paid for options which
you can install, including AVG and AVAST
to help protect your phone from viruses, and
Malwarebytes for helping to keep out other
nasties. Whether you choose AVG or Avast,
make sure you only download it from the official
Android or IOS store. In fact, you should only
ever install apps from the official sources; apps
from other sources can often be the cause of
infections.
app installed at a time, but
you can install Malwarebytes
to run in the background
as well. I have found this to
be an excellent tool to help
protect against malware which, while it might
not always be bad for my phone, can cause it to
seriously slow down.
So if you haven’t yet installed antivirus
on your phone do it now before you visit
another website or read another email. And get
it to scan your phone to check it’s as clean as it
should be. With free products that are reliable
and easy to install, there really is no time like
the present to start protecting yourself.
You can only
have one antivirus
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