{"id":2569,"date":"2026-08-17T04:00:00","date_gmt":"2026-08-16T20:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/obagg.com\/index.php\/2026\/08\/17\/do-you-really-need-an-antivirus-app-on-your-android\/"},"modified":"2026-08-17T04:00:00","modified_gmt":"2026-08-16T20:00:00","slug":"do-you-really-need-an-antivirus-app-on-your-android","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/obagg.com\/index.php\/2026\/08\/17\/do-you-really-need-an-antivirus-app-on-your-android\/","title":{"rendered":"Do you really need an antivirus app on your Android?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>You probably don&#8217;t need antivirus software on your Android phone, but there are some exceptions.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.engadget.com\/img\/gallery\/do-you-really-need-an-antivirus-app-on-your-android\/intro-1786462373.jpg\" \/><\/p><p>Please credit: <a href=\"https:\/\/obagg.com\">OBA Blog<\/a> &raquo; <a href=\"https:\/\/obagg.com\/index.php\/2026\/08\/17\/do-you-really-need-an-antivirus-app-on-your-android\/\">Do you really need an antivirus app on your Android?<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>You probably don&#8217;t need antivirus software on your Android phone, but there are some exceptions. Please credit: OBA Blog &raquo; Do you really need an antivirus app on your Android?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2570,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2569","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-share"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/obagg.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2569","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/obagg.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/obagg.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/obagg.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/obagg.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2569"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/obagg.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2569\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/obagg.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2570"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/obagg.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2569"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/obagg.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2569"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/obagg.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2569"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}