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[Extremist]

"The source of the spam botnet seem to be users who downloaded pirated copies of paid Android apps that which were infected with trojans, said Chester Wisniewski, a senior security adviser at Sophos Canada."

If you didn't pirate anything, you're safe. It's not like Windows XP circa 2004 when you could get the Blaster worm through a remote buffer overflow within 30 minutes of connecting to the Internet.

No matter what protection you have, if you let an infected file run, it's useless. Anyone with a bit of common sense could have avoided this trojan.

[Mattviator]

So people are SIDE LOADING pirated apps.This isnt an android security flaw its MORONS who dont know what they are doing.

[Mattviator]

Security expert Graham Cluley, from anti-virus firm Sophos, said it was highly likely the attacks originated from Android devices, given all available information, BUT THIS COULD NOT BE PROVEN.

[KLanD]

Non issue..

"The source of the spam botnet seem to be users who downloaded pirated copies of paid Android apps that which were infected with trojans,"

Why do I always see these ridiculous Android malware stories, but I never see any about the malware floating around the iOS jailbreak community?

YOu know.. it's almost like you are intentionally writing misleading articles in an attempt to get people to associate Android with malware..

I'm not saying anything, I'm just sayin..

[MrHistamine]

Extremist, on 05 July 2012 - 06:07 AM, said:

"The source of the spam botnet seem to be users who downloaded pirated copies of paid Android apps that which were infected with trojans, said Chester Wisniewski, a senior security adviser at Sophos Canada."

If you didn't pirate anything, you're safe. It's not like Windows XP circa 2004 when you could get the Blaster worm through a remote buffer overflow within 30 minutes of connecting to the Internet.

No matter what protection you have, if you let an infected file run, it's useless. Anyone with a bit of common sense could have avoided this trojan.

While your statement is 100% true, 100% of Android users do not use common sense (just like any other user, on any other OS). Malware on Android (while infantile at this point), is going to grow - it's way to big a target to ignore.

[Extremist]

MrHistamine, on 05 July 2012 - 02:14 PM, said:

Extremist, on 05 July 2012 - 06:07 AM, said:

"The source of the spam botnet seem to be users who downloaded pirated copies of paid Android apps that which were infected with trojans, said Chester Wisniewski, a senior security adviser at Sophos Canada."

If you didn't pirate anything, you're safe. It's not like Windows XP circa 2004 when you could get the Blaster worm through a remote buffer overflow within 30 minutes of connecting to the Internet.

No matter what protection you have, if you let an infected file run, it's useless. Anyone with a bit of common sense could have avoided this trojan.

While your statement is 100% true, 100% of Android users do not use common sense (just like any other user, on any other OS). Malware on Android (while infantile at this point), is going to grow - it's way to big a target to ignore.

I agree that malware on Android will grow, but for now, if you excersise caution over where you download from, you'll likely be fine.