Yes, any mobile phone or device can be infected with a virus. However, Android is working hard to protect your mobile devices and protect them from viruses. Unfortunately, there are still people out there that love to hack software or a company website or server. It seems to be fun for them to find different ways to infect these devices with viruses. You will need to protect your own device and make sure you use caution when attaching to a WiFi. Here are a few measures you can try or use to help protect your device: When in public never attached to an un-secure WiFi network. Only allow your phone to connect to a trusted network that is secure. A good practice with any mobile device is to turn off your WiFi connection when not in use. This will help to protect your device and not allow it to connect to any WiFi network when you are in public. Each time you'd like to download and install a new app on your device, it is recommended that you do a bit of research on the app if you don't know anyone using this app. On the Google Play Store, many apps have a very bad or low rating. Unfortunately, Google doesn't remove some apps from their store. Therefore, it is up to us to check out the apps before installing them on our devices.