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What a ridiculous take to even imply that malware on Android is even comparable to the malware dumpster fire on Windows. There is more malware on Windows than t
by kernal 3y ago
What a ridiculous take to even imply that malware on Android is even comparable to the malware dumpster fire on Windows. There is more malware on Windows than there are apps. 99% of what is considered "malware" on Android is often aggressive adware that is benign. Remember when the security pundits were predicting that the Stagefright exploit would infect billions of Android phones? Stagefright didn't amount to anything.
>At least Windows PCs are controllable by the organization's administrator, how are you going to control people's phones unless you start issuing company phones as well?
You mean the same "controllable" Windows PC's that are responsible for nearly 100% of the ransomware, virus and malware infections in corporations? Right.
- eddythompson80 3y agoAs the original comment said > As long as some platform is capable and powerful for many things, there will be malware. Android != GNU/Linux. iOS != MacOS. GNU/Linux, Mac, Windows are far more capable and powerful that mobile platform and therefore far more susceptible to malware. Plenty of Linux-based servers are hacked every day, plenty of scanning bots are targeting Linux-based software vulnerabilities over the internet.
- kernal 3y agoSnapdragon and A series SoCs equipped devices are more powerful than your average corporate PC. The issue with Windows is that it has numerous attack vectors and once you compromise one the others will likely be compromised as well. Additionally, not all Android phones are equal. This is one of the main reasons Stagefright was so ineffective. An OS built by Google is probably not going to be susceptible to an attack that works on a Samsung Android OS build and vice versa. This is further complicated by the fact that not all smartphones are running the same OS version. This explains why writing malware to attack all of Android is so futile. Your malware may work on a Samsung Galaxy S23 running Android 13, but will probably not work on the same phone running a different version of Android.