I installed AV once on my android phone after doing something stupid, luckily I got away with it and uninstalled soon after due to irritating pop-up annoyances

I installed AV once on my android phone after doing something stupid, luckily I got away with it and uninstalled soon after due to irritating pop-up annoyances from the AV app. Desktop-wise I've been on Linux for well over a decade, I've never used AV except to (rarely) clean out infected files I might share and infect others with, not necessarily for my own protection.