Google: antivirus for smartphones - a fraud

Google top manager Chris Dibona accused the suppliers of antivirus for mobile devices of quackery and fraud. In his opinion, there is no smartphone virus hazard in the form in which it is for Windows.

The head of Google's open source software Dibona Chris (Chris DiBona) called anti-virus vendors for mobile devices, ...
... ... If you work for a company that sells anti-virus for Android, RIM or iOS, you should be ashamed ...
According Dibony, although malware on mobile devices - not a myth, but it rarely creates real problems for users: ... Known issues are insignificant because of the use (when you run applications in a mobile operating system) model of ...
The newspaper The Register, analyzed the performance of Chris Dibony, suggested that his statement was provoked by a sharp study of Juniper Networks, published a week earlier.
According to the report, Juniper, over three and a half months (from July 2011. ) The number of malicious software written for the Android platform a472 % increase in N. At the same time, researchers have noticed, a good opportunity to spread malicious software for Android provides Android Market, sticking with a less strict model code verification, than, for example, App Store platform iOS.

By the present time it is known that security software for Android released most antivirus vendors. In particular, aware of the developments Symantec, F-Secure, « Laboratory Kaspesrkogo ...
... I do not know, calm down a user who installed in your smartphone Trojan, the sending paid SMS or steal their personal data that is not a virus and that a Google representative has determined that this Trojan will not go too far in his system. I think it is unlikely, loss of money or this will be done, and so ...
Android has become the most popular platform for cybercrime by all indicators, ... According to the ...
Unlike Android, zlovedov with a payload for iOS was found, adds a leading anti-virus expert ... Attacks on iOS users are more resource-intensive and complex task than the owners of Android.

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