 woody7Premium
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Torrance, CA | Droid malware The first thing I got for my phone and tablet was virus protection. Look to me for phone and tablet, just got Avast moble for phone. That with common sense, should be somwhat safe. Android Market shoud scan all apps when submitted to be safe
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 fuziwuziNot born yesterdayPremium
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Atlanta, GA | I've had an Android phone for over 4 years, have over 45 apps installed. Never had any malware, have never seen any malware. And yes, I did a scan just to confirm, but I still say all this doom and gloom about Android malware is FUD. Follow the money.
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 Romney2012Defeat Obama 2012-Chg we can believe inPremium
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kudos:4 | said by fuziwuzi:I've had an Android phone for over 4 years, have over 45 apps installed. Never had any malware, have never seen any malware. And yes, I did a scan just to confirm, but I still say all this doom and gloom about Android malware is FUD. Follow the money.
What money. Most of the Android malware scanning apps are free. |
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fuziwuziNot born yesterdayPremium
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Atlanta, GA | said by Romney2012:said by fuziwuzi:I've had an Android phone for over 4 years, have over 45 apps installed. Never had any malware, have never seen any malware. And yes, I did a scan just to confirm, but I still say all this doom and gloom about Android malware is FUD. Follow the money.
What money. Most of the Android malware scanning apps are free. LOL, so you think they are charity? Who pays for them? Who pays for these "studies" and "reports"? You're either naive or obfuscating.
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kudos:4 | said by fuziwuzi:said by Romney2012:said by fuziwuzi:I've had an Android phone for over 4 years, have over 45 apps installed. Never had any malware, have never seen any malware. And yes, I did a scan just to confirm, but I still say all this doom and gloom about Android malware is FUD. Follow the money.
What money. Most of the Android malware scanning apps are free. LOL, so you think they are charity? Who pays for them? Who pays for these "studies" and "reports"? You're either naive or obfuscating. They work on the same basis as Google and other companies based on ads. Don't view the ads and buy the products, putting the software on your phone costs you nothing.
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fuziwuziNot born yesterdayPremium
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Atlanta, GA | Again, you seem to be either naive or obfuscating. The more they scare people, the more their "solution" gets used, the more ad money they make. Follow the money.
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kudos:4 | said by fuziwuzi:Again, you seem to be either naive or obfuscating. The more they scare people, the more their "solution" gets used, the more ad money they make. Follow the money.
»technolog.msnbc.msn.com/_news/20···-report? |
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 CheesePremium
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Android has just hit about 4 years old but you have had Android longer?  |
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fuziwuziNot born yesterdayPremium
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Atlanta, GA | reply to Romney2012
Symantec, McAfee, and Microsoft... yeah, no conflict of interest there.  FUD!
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 Noah VailSon made my AvatarPremium
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kudos:1 | reply to woody7
Don't make me dupe post this here.
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| To what end? That thread both disputes and verifies Symantec's claims.
Look: I have little regard for AV software. I regard it as both over-hyped and, even when effective, a bit like closing the barn door after the horses are gone. But that doesn't change the facts that: 1. The Android marketplace is rather loosey-goosey on what's allowed to be published, and by whom. There's apparently no vetting of publishers or what's published. 2. Given the opportunity: Both "legitimate" businesses and entities with purely Evil intent will take advantage of that. Witness MS-Windows and the masses of infected MS-Win PeeCees.
Google can go a long way toward addressing some of this very simply: Quarantine new apps and updates until they can be vetted by automated scanners. Believe me: Goog's got the processing power.
Or Google can let the Android platform become "the next Windows," as it's already becoming known--and not in a good way. |
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| said by jseymour:To what end? That thread both disputes and verifies Symantec's claims. Symantec's claim is a lie as presented.
The Symantec press releases weave together terms like bot, infection, malware, trojan, malicious code, steals information as if they were describing a genuinely dangerous threat; such as TDSS or a Zeus keylogger.
An honest bulletin by Symantec would declare Counterclank to be adware, which it is.
A more honest threat assessment by Symantec would place primary blame with the internet advertising industry.
(Internet advertising groups like the IMB consistently fail to proactively address the unethical practices in their ranks that lead to software like HotBar, MyWebSearch and Counterclank.)
Instead, the android market is attacked.
The solution (of course) is the Microsoft/Apple Company-Store model, which can effectively enforce a limit on which choices consumers will be allowed.
The thinking is that we'll all be far safer, if we'll just relinquish some of our consumer liberty to MS-Apple.
After all - they know what's best for us, better than we do.
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