- Mar 15, 2011
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Over the past year, the popularity of the Android system has led to a huge increase in the distribution of Android malware (see fig. 1). This malware is mainly distributed in markets operated by third parties, but even the Google Android Market cannot guarantee that all of its listed applications do not contain any threats. Users should no longer blindly trust all apps. A large range of protection programmes that can help to identify dangerous apps and remove them from a user's device are now available.
AV-TEST has inspected 41 different virus scanners for Android with regard to their detection performance. Close to two thirds of these scanners are not yet suitable for use as reliable products and identify less than 65% of the 618 types of malware tested. The mobile versions of well-known desktop products were mostly evaluated as good or very good. Figure 2 shows how the products cover all detection areas.
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