So my wife was on her Kindle Fire the other day and a message displayed that her Kindle Fire had a virus. She gave it to me to check it out and I carefully navigated to see what was going on without making MATTERS worse.

It seems as though it was malware pop up for Kindle Fire directed to scare PEOPLE into installing an antivirus application that is not Amazon software approved. I declined the installation of this antivirus software which made claims to an infection and hadn't seen any further pop ups warning of a virus, since after all how can a virus be detected without an antivirus installed to begin with, so it seems like scareware.

Anyone else have a Kindle Fire that has seen this malware type pop up trying to scare people into downloading a questionable antivirus for Kindle Fire's which is more than likely malware itself due to the scare tactics used in trying to get people to select to download and install this non Amazon approved software?

Also is there any antivirus or other security software apps that should be RUNNING on a Kindle Fire that she might not already have running?

My daughter and my wife download all sorts of STUFF for it more games than books etc, and so if there is something that should be added to protect against an infection, they PROBABLY need it.

*My knowledge of the Kindle Fire is pretty basic. I fixed it for my wife when the digitizer got shattered, and I know how to go in and make basic config changes to it such as connect it to my wifi etc, but I have no need for it myself and played with it less than 10 minutes overall since we got it, so I am not a guru with its features etc. But if someone points out what to check out on it, I can poke around and find my way with some direction.

Thanks