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Re: Droid malware 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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