It has been a few days since I have posted out here.
I was reading online about a new virus/malware that is hitting the android os hard. I think the main issue out there is how much people trust third party apps/websites. Obviously if you download apk files from known sources it wont be an issue and since the list of known good sources is short (google market, amazon market, and apps you have developed) then the spread of this think should be short lived. But we know people don't do that.
I have been in the tech business for a few years and in that time I have found that when people get desperate to download an app for free (that's normally not) they don't care where it comes from. All they do is google for the app and as soon as they find a download site, they start clicking. Obviously, this is not safe and the best way to get your device infected. If an app requires you to pay for it, then pay for it. Its way to easy for someone to create an apk file, make it look like a wanted/popular app, and post it out on the web.
On another note, when there are a huge number of devices getting infected with a virus that already has had a fix released, it also proves that people don't have an app scanning program. Its not hard to get one and some of the good ones are free (lookout). The Internet is a very wonderful resource, but you have to protect your device against the part of that resource that wants to harm it.
UPDATE: Seems like lookout is saying that the virus is bogus. Symantec may not know what a virus on Android is
I was reading online about a new virus/malware that is hitting the android os hard. I think the main issue out there is how much people trust third party apps/websites. Obviously if you download apk files from known sources it wont be an issue and since the list of known good sources is short (google market, amazon market, and apps you have developed) then the spread of this think should be short lived. But we know people don't do that.
I have been in the tech business for a few years and in that time I have found that when people get desperate to download an app for free (that's normally not) they don't care where it comes from. All they do is google for the app and as soon as they find a download site, they start clicking. Obviously, this is not safe and the best way to get your device infected. If an app requires you to pay for it, then pay for it. Its way to easy for someone to create an apk file, make it look like a wanted/popular app, and post it out on the web.
On another note, when there are a huge number of devices getting infected with a virus that already has had a fix released, it also proves that people don't have an app scanning program. Its not hard to get one and some of the good ones are free (lookout). The Internet is a very wonderful resource, but you have to protect your device against the part of that resource that wants to harm it.
UPDATE: Seems like lookout is saying that the virus is bogus. Symantec may not know what a virus on Android is
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