I  always advise healthy paranoia :)  

you're probably not needing to protect your android device from viruses, but from malware. Please read the permissions you allow to apps you download, consider the effects and whether or not you are willing to deal with the gaps you open to those applications. Finally read the comments ( he who learns from his own experience when there are other people experiences are available is not a very smart person, is (s)he) and do not allow auto update (this allows you to read what the update will be bringing on-board ) 

Sadly, I do not have a tab, yet, so I cannot give any advice on back-ups :) 

While I am not endorsing TrustGo, maybe it is worth a shot. Here is an infograph android authority posted here thanks to TrustGo, it has some pretty useful info.

cheers 

On Sat, Oct 27, 2012 at 8:42 PM, Peter Karunyu <pkarunyu@gmail.com> wrote:

@Odhiambo and Moses, last week I came across a piece of news of 2 particularly nasty pieces of malware for the Android platform, really effective in reading personal data on them Android devices. I forget their names.

One of the suggested defence mechanisms is a good AV.

On Fri, Oct 26, 2012 at 11:40 PM, Michael Bullut <main@kipsang.com> wrote:

Try TrustGo Antivirus.

Sent on the run,
Please excuse errors & ommissions!

On Oct 26, 2012 7:42 PM, "Frank Kiprono" <fkipronoh@gmail.com> wrote:

Guys,

I need the following for my tab:

A nice antivirus
A way to back up data

Its on Android Ver 3.2

Please give me any leads.
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