My thoughts exactly. Sounds like a PR piece for Metascan. - "downloaded almost 12,000 apps" - I know there are a lot of apps out there, and a lot of crappy one

My thoughts exactly. Sounds like a PR piece for Metascan. - "downloaded almost 12,000 apps" - I know there are a lot of apps out there, and a lot of crappy ones, but finding 12,000 apps to download from "third party stores" not Google Play or Amazon... well, it's a lot indeed. - "which flagged 32% of the apps as suspicious" - meaning what exactly? To me any app that queries my phone ID looks suspicious. Most apps from Google play do. - "the majority of the apps it highlighted were marked as malware" and "many files were picked up because they had been classified as adware" - they are quite specific with the number of suspicious apps, but not very specific with apps that are supposed to be malware. If they tested 12,000 apps, of which 3800 (~32%) were suspicious, then more than 1900 (>50%, the majority) of them were supposedly malware. That's roughly 16%, which doesn't sound like a number all that impressive anymore. Regarding the adware claim - well, a big percentage of apps available on Google Play is adware. If that alone qualifies for suspicious...