About Hypatia
Hypatia is an Android malware scanner that uses signature databases to check files and installed apps. Users can choose which areas to scan, including system files, internal or external storage, and installed applications. A real-time scanner can also inspect files when they are written or renamed in internal storage. Signature databases can be enabled or disabled according to the user’s preference. Scanning takes place on the device, and the app works offline after signature data is available. Network access is used to download signature database updates; the product description says scanned files are not sent away from the phone. The app can restart its scanner after a device boot or app update. Its signature-based approach identifies items that match the enabled databases, so detection depends on the signatures available and the files being scanned. Hypatia is intended as an on-device malware scanning tool with both manual and real-time modes. It is described as using ClamAV-style signatures and as being designed for low resource use. The supplied description does not establish that it can detect every threat, so its results should be understood as matches against selected signature databases rather than a guarantee that a device is free of malware.
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