Does a tablet need anti virus?

[SeijiSensei]

Personally, I do not see the need of third party AV's, as most applications are in secure - filtered repos, whether Mac, Windows or Linux. And most messaging is filtered. The pathway for virus and malware tends to be the user - and careless untrusted installs.

Even on a locked-down network like the one I help one of my client's maintain with automated email and web object scanning, we still have a problem with people bringing in USB thumb drives with malware on them.

[NobleYorkshire]

I always feel weird not having any sort of anti virus. On my tablet I have AVG Free. And yeah downloading apps that don't have a lot of reviews is sort of concerning because as said above there could be some mal-intentioned developers.