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Are there any current methods of detection? What about this warning of "any app that required a security update to be installed before it was run" - what is tha

• vetinari 12y ago
  > A standard Android warning/request dialog? No, Android does not have standard dialog that requests do make security updates. There is a notification/activity, that alerts you, when system update is available. In some rare cases, there may be messagebox telling you, that Google Play Services need to be updated (and after tapping OK, it opens Play Store for you). What the article describes, is more like drive-by-installation malware. You need to enable unknown app sources (and acknowledge the warning dialog), as well as verify apps. Then you need to download apk and install it. To make comparison with PCs, it is similar to some random web site persuading you to download random binary and run it as root.
  • dmix 12y ago
    > No, Android does not have standard dialog that requests do make security updates. OTA updates are in all modern Android devices and it does ask you to update when new versions come out. They aren't security patches necessarily or communicated that way though, they are OS updates, that reflash your phone.