LoveLaceAV

LoveLaceAV

Overview

LoveLaceAV is a FOSS malware scanner for Android. It is powered by ClamAV style signature databases and forked from Hypatia made by the Divested Computing Group.

LoveLaceAV vs. MaintainTeam-Hypatia

Time passed by and in the meantime another fork has been created here with some useful additions and fixes. At the moment LoveLaceAV is in sync with the MaintainTeam-Hypatia code and will continue this way as long as there is no important reason to change this.

That means LoveLaceAV merges changes from MaintainTeam-Hypatia via CI/CD and the only difference between the both projects are different signature databases at the moment.

That being said the database of LoveLaceAV is updated more frequently, contains more signatures and also domains for the integrated link scanner which are not integrated in MaintainTeam-Hypatia at the moment.

See also the Signature Databases topic on this page for all details.

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