Android malware protection: a guide for the paranoid

2. G8_sy_ posted on 14 Mar 2012, 09:59 4 0

It's already started... I work at an authorized SPRINT repair and retail. Within the past 2 weeks we have had an increase of people with infected phones. 12 total people by my count. It's not a huge number compared to the volume of service we do however, it is a huge increase over the very few we have seen previously.

3. Evil_SaNz posted on 14 Mar 2012, 10:18 3 1

I never understood this: everyone says iOS is immune, but still I see jailbreaks. Jailbreak is an evident exploit of Apple's ecosystem and the threshold from being friendly or being malware is really thin. Everyone is 100% sure that all repositories are from friendly hackers? I'm not.

4. good2great posted on 14 Mar 2012, 10:20 0 0

paraDroid hehe

5. atheisticemetic posted on 14 Mar 2012, 10:39 9 0

simple solution: dont be an idiot and you dont get malware

i hate how this gives Android a bad name because people are too stupid to do research on the apps they download. If you dont know what you're doing, dont bitch when something wrong happens to the phone. lmgtfy.com much? it isnt hard to do research on an app before you download it. Common sense cant hurt either; if Angry Birds required my GPS location to play the game, do you think you should download it?

Also this article is partially falsified because there is the Google bouncer. The problem is for the apps that are existing that may contain malware that have not been scanned. This will be a temporary problem however...

"Now, tell us - are you worried about the security of the data on your mobile devices?"

No...the government choose Android over apple, so I ask in return "If the gov't isnt concerned, then why should any intelligent human being?"
There's more security hazard in a jailbroken Iphone than an open source Android

Very informative article Ray, but extremely misleading...

21. Leo_MC posted on 14 Mar 2012, 15:07 4 0

Please give me an infected app!!! Where on earth are those "vicious" malware?!

27. kangaskhan9 posted on 14 Mar 2012, 16:35 6 0

Hah everyone, I have a Palm phone! Nobody would bother to target these! Therefore its obviously better than the iPhone and Androids and everyone who doesn't have one must be an idiot. /sarcasm

There's a will, there's a way. Everything can be targeted. iOS can get it, Android can get it.
(ironically, jailbroken devices can be more secure than non-jb sometimes. e.g. changed root pw, etc. but that really depends on a lot, like everything else)

34. frydaexiii posted on 15 Mar 2012, 00:43 0 0

If you're paranoid about getting viruses on your droid, you're probably too dumb to be holding one, switch to iOS please, no one wants your whiny dumb rants about viruses here.