If you are using a smartphone or a tablet, then you need a Security App just as you need anti virus software on a personal computer.  You want to protect your personal information that you have on your phone and protect yourself against malware, spyware, and viruses that could be lurking in your apps that you download or links that you click while browsing the “mobile” web. Lookout Mobile Security offers an application that scans every app that you download.

“Lookout offers a free version for essential security and a premium version for comprehensive protection.”

Lookout is a cool program that offers more than just “security” the services include:

• protection against phishing, malware and spyware ( free essential security)
• backup protection, restore data (free) backup photos and phone calls (premium)
• find your lost or stolen phone if possible, or you can wipe the data,  from another smartphone or computer
• scream is the alarm you can set off with Lookout, even if your phone is on silent it will set off an alarm so you can find it nearby (free)
• lock your phone from the website or wipe the data if its lost forever (premium)

Head over to read more about the Free and Premium Services Lookout Provides to Android, Blackberry, and Windows.

Which Security App for smartphones do you use?