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he's likely be infected by now - What kind of infections would these be viruses/malware? Other day there was security expert who mentioned how Android security
by ocean3 11y ago
he's likely be infected by now - What kind of infections would these be viruses/malware? Other day there was security expert who mentioned how Android security was bad, but did not mention any specific cases. My dad uses a 4.x device. Many other as well( India where low end has 4.x devices). But i don't see these user complaining about viruses or malware. Considering that they would usually complain about virus affecting their windows os. Is there anyway to know if the devices are infected?
- m45t3r 11y agoEven Android have a much better security model than your traditional desktop OS. Except if the malware includes a root exploit (in this case, all bets are off), the traditional "malware" in Android is limited to basically what the user allows it. However malware including root exploits should be rare, at least if the user only install applications using Google Play. Using applications from other sources, specially to get "free versions" of paid applications can be really bad. Unless the user are a completely moron, without enabling access for Accessibility, a malicious app can't, for example, read everything on the user screen, or capture the information the user types (the user would need to explicit allow it by turning on keyboard servicesin this case). This means that a malware can't sniff login information, or read the user e-mail. However they can still get valuable information (if the user did not read the permissions that Android asks before performing installation), like user contacts.