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Re: Droid malware 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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