I had to create a REVE account which began a generous 30-day trial license and gave me access to the online dashboard. Setting up REVE requires a couple of additional steps beyond simply downloading and installing it from the Google Play Store-but as this is a premium-only tool I expected as much. The tool allows category and blacklist-based filtering for protected devices. ![]() The parental control button on the app is intended to provide administrative controls for other devices linked to the user’s REVE account. The tool flagged a couple of apps I run with an orange warning symbol, although I chose to not take any action. Clicking on each app displays a list of the permissions it has been granted. The app includes a privacy evaluation tool which grades each app based on its number of permissions and provides an overall rating for how at-risk your device is. The dashboard also allows users to view scan reports from the app online. However, if I had a full license, this would not have been an issue. Unfortunately, I wasn’t able to locate my trial key either by checking my email or the app-so I had no way of adding my smartphone to the dashboard’s devices list. Users are able to manage multiple REVE devices through the web-based interface, or specify a trusted number which can be used to send encoded text messages to trigger the lock-down features. Alarms can also be remotely activated to startle thieves. The anti-theft protection module allows users to remotely locate, lock, and wipe their devices via REVE’s online dashboard. REVE also includes: Anti-Theft Protection and Cloud-based Dashboard Separate scan types were sorted into separate tabs, making it easier to track down a specific report. I was able to view a complete list of scan reports with symbols indicating whether any threats were detected. The app also provides a separate reports screen and allows users to aggregate PC and Android scan reports if both products are linked to the same account. REVE lets users manually check for virus definition updates as well as set the automatic update check interval, which can be every twelve hours, every day, or every two days. ![]() These were all legitimate apps that I shouldn’t delete, so users need to double check the scanner’s default recommendations. These “threats” were labeled based on REVE’s definition database (the Helium app, for instance, was identified as “”), so I had to click the “remove” button to see what the program was suggesting I uninstall. Unfortunately, the scanner also threw up a number of false positives after I ran an on-demand scan. These were detected in real-time, as promised. I couldn’t find an independent benchmark test for REVE’s Android version, so I installed some test viruses from IKARUS Security. REVE offers the kind of comprehensive scanning functions that I recommend in an Android antivirus, but the ability to choose a selection of apps to scan is a feature I haven’t come across before. The default phone scanner certainly takes its time about checking your handset- my first scan took almost five minutes to run, and a line of text above the percentage icon showed me exactly which objects were being checked. REVE offers three scanning options: the phone scanner, which checks both apps and external storage directories, a running app scanner, and a custom scan. It offers both internal and external media scanning options as well as comprehensive remote lock-down options. REVE Antivirus is an antivirus and privacy optimizer for Android.
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