Android malware skyrocketed over the past year, reveals F-Secure

1. Sniggly posted on 20 min ago 1 0

1. Who is F-secure, and how do they determine their numbers?

2. Even if they are correct, and these are numbers of malicious apps on the Android Market, the amount of malicious apps versus total apps (as of months ago) is a whopping 0.68 percent.

Ooh. I'm shaking in my fanboy skinned boots.

2. I_Slap_Fat_Kids posted on 8 min ago 1 0

Regardless, I'm not stupid about what I'm downloading.

If the Angry Birds Space app I see only has a few thousand downloads and it's not published by Rovio, obviously there's something wrong.

3. andro. posted on 5 min ago 0 0

I've yet to see a customer come instore to complain about malware or viruses on their handsets. I'd suspect that the people who do have 'infected' handsets are ones who have been fooling around with suspect roms and hacking.

It is important for people to keep aware of any scam threats though as the most common thing people are caught with these days are premium texts services from subscription services customers do not know they entered into buy entering random tv competitions by text message or buying ringtones from tv ads etc without reading the small print.

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