Open-source Android OS is
potentially vulnerable to
malicious apps, sounds like
common sense. According to
Kaspersky though, the mobile OS
is currently invaded by no less
than 70 types of malware apps
and there will be a lot more very
quickly.
Google has banned from the
Market and remotely
deactivated some potentially
harmful apps already. Android
was and currently is vulnerable
to various malware but there
was no official statistic data
until now.
According to Kaspersky Google’
OS is at risk of 70 different
types of malware (as of this
March) and the number keeps
growing. It seems Google is still
unable to take care of the
problem. It is soon going to
have the largest smartphone
share and needs to work hard in
that direction.
It seems the Android Market
needs better control with
regards to the process of app
approval (may be something like
the Apple ’s AppStore). Otherwise
this might turn into a really big
issue for Google, shake the
foundations of Android as a
competitive OS and push back a
lot of potential users.
Thu Apr 28, 2011 9:03 pm