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[Extremist]

Mobile malware is not a problem if you don't pirate all your apps.

This post has been edited by Extremist: 15 December 2012 - 11:35 AM

[CJ100570]

I honestly have to wonder who paid you to write this? You wanna know something that I never see in any forum for any of the mobile OS' out there? People with malware problems. I'm 100% certain that does exist though. Mainly in labs and the dark corners of websites that deal in pirated applications. I'm on my 10th Android phone, I've had 2 iPhones, 2 BlackBerry's, 4 Windows Mobile phone, 1 Windows Phone, and too many Symbian phones to count and I've never worried about malware!

[karthiq]

@cj, tech forums usually highlight high profile problems like antenna issues, maps etc But malware has become so common and prevalant in PCs for years that even as it has become present in smartphones, tech writers no longer see it as something that can be sensationalised. Hence you dont see much written about it.

[Lurchrs]

CJ, the reason you haven't had a problem is that there are people working for these phone and app companies that are concerned and have taken logical steps to protect the idiots like you that think nothing is ever gonna happen to me. You ought to be thanking your phone manufacturers instead of bashing a writer for PCWorld that is giving useful information to those that may need to hear it.

[GB]

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Mobile malware is not a problem if you don't pirate all your apps.

You really don't get it. It's pirating apps. In fact,most people who get infected don't even know where to turn off the default setting allowing you to install apps not from the market.. The problem is that people don't read and understand the permissions like why would a game need access to your phones serial number or be allowed permissions to make and receive calls or ability to operate your camera. It's those people who don't read and understand what they are allowing these programs to do, with their head buried in the sand, are the prime targets of mobile malware.

[GB]

^^^ not from pirating apps^^^

[MacNewton]

Other people have said the same thing, comparing android to Apple's iOS is much like comparing Windows to Mac. Don't you agree?

[Humanoid]

I think that GB basically says the truth. What we are seeing going on right now is that Micro$oft has (typically for them) started all sorts of untrue hate campaigns toward the Android OS. Also it is completely absurd to compare Android to M$ Windows security (or the lack of same) as M$ Windows is a "fault by design" OS that will never get secure, at least not as long as new version of M$ Windows need to run old M$ programs (other than maybe in a simulator). And also M$ has the world record all by themselves when it comes to writing insecure software. Android which is built on a Linux kernel is actually a secure system and if security flaws are found then they will be fixed very fast (unlike with M$ who just don't care and only maybe fix security flaws when they have become very known to the public typically many months after they were first discovered), but if you install an Android app containing malicious code and gives it access to the inner system or your private informations, then your Android will as every OS become vulnerable (even state of the art Unix servers will suffer if you do that). So if you need your Android to be secure then simple do not install pirate apps or apps you don't trust.