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400 Percent Increase In Android Malware
- zfran 15y agoWhere are the real numbers? going from 1 malware app to 5 is a 400% increase
- elboru 15y agoThe best antivirus is the user. You must be conscious on what are you doing with your smartphone.
- cosgroveb 15y agoAh, blame the user. Nice. Especially in an age when you can viruses from Flash 0-days served up unwittingly by ad networks...
- andos 15y agoI'm here just to cause a 25% increase in the number of comments in this thread.
- code_duck 15y agoI install pretty much nothing on my Android phone any longer. I wouldn't trust some binaries from a random site on the internet offering software, why trust the Android Market? On a desktop OS, would you browse through awesomefreesoftware.example.com and install anything that caught your eye? No... so, why would I do that on my phone? Google doesn't appear to do any sort of quality control other than perhaps responding to reports. Clearly Apple's method, while onerous in many ways, has advantages.
- ender7 15y agoSo...Google appears to have created an app platform that no one wants to install apps on. Great.
- dpcan 15y agoWell, I've had millions of downloads of my apps, so not exactly "no one".
- code_duck 15y agoI've installed a lot of apps, and Android is a great platofrm for that. I just wish it was more 'go wild, install anything you want, it's actually reviewed!' like the iPhone... the problem is Google's lack of administration for the Market. Maybe Amazon will do it better? Like on Debian or Ubuntu, you have the packages reviewed/compiled by the company, and the ones that are not. It would be nice if Google put forth an effort to at least have a 'reviewed and likely to be safe' area. As it is, I have to find software through other methods, like reviews or such on the web, and determine whether the vendor is trustworthy.
- dpcan 15y ago99% of my apps require 0 permissions. I really believe that a lot of my success comes from this. I never download anything that requires anything other than the Internet permission, maybe Location, and sometimes SD Card modifications (though I hate that one too). Some of my competitors that are completely free ask for phone identity, contacts, etc, and yet they are soaring to the tops of the ranks. People are downloading anything, and not worrying about anything. Unfortunately, the average user still has the mentality of "So, I have nothing on here they can get". Which is obviously idiotic as the hacker will use YOUR phone to do something illegal possibly. I don't know why people don't get this???????
- imgabe 15y agoOh, two companies that sell antivirus software are issuing hysterical warnings about mobile malware. I can't tell if this is an article or advertising copy. > now would be as good a time as any to choose an antivirus app. You don't say...