Hypatia Malware Scanner
Hypatia is the world's first FOSS malware scanner for Android. It is powered by ClamAV style signature databases.
Cost / License
- Free
- Open Source
Application types
Alerts
- Discontinued
Platforms
- Android
- Android Tablet
- F-Droid
Due to lack of funding and only one person managing the entire project, DivestOS and its apps will not receive any further updates. This includes Hypatia, which, along with 
Carrion will no longer receive database updates. https://divestos.org/pages/news#end
Features
Properties
- Privacy focused
- Lightweight
Features
- No Tracking
- Ad-free
- Malware Analysis
- Automated Malware Scan
Tags
- virus-protection
- offline-antivirus
- antivirus-security
Hypatia Malware Scanner News & Activities
Recent News
- POX published news article about DivestOS
Secure mobile operating system DivestOS ends after a decade of developmentIn a surprising turn of events, the maintainer of DivestOS, a private and secure mobile operating s...
Recent activities
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Hypatia Malware Scanner information
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Divested Computing Licensing
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What is Hypatia Malware Scanner?
Hypatia is the world's first FOSS malware scanner for Android. It is powered by 
ClamAV style signature databases.
Features:
- Near zero battery impact: you'll never notice any impact on battery at all
- Extremely fast: it can scan small files (1MB) in <20ms, and even large files (40MB) in 1000ms.
- Memory efficient: with the default databases enabled it uses under 120MB.
- Regular scan: allowing selection of /system, internal storage, external storage, and installed apps
- Realtime scanner: can detect malware in realtime on write/rename in internal storage
- Completely offline: Internet is only used to download signature databases, files will never ever leave your device
- Persistence: will automatically restart on boot/update
- Tiny codebase: coming in at under 1000 sloc, it can be audited by even someone with basic programming experience
- Minimal dependencies: the app only uses libraries when necessary
- Signature databases can be enabled/disabled at the users demand
Comments and Reviews
This was forked with the same name and that version is still maintained. Unfortunately it still has the same issue of minimal effectiveness due to being.based on detecting known malware not malicious behavior of apps and services. There is a lot an app can do without any permissions given.