Question for you android users

[Shuffler]

I really want the whistle from the Old Spice commercials. Anyone know where i can find it?

lol

[guncrasher]

I am just curios about one thing.  if android gets 91% of all new malware then who gets the other 9%  apple?


semp

[MrRiplEy[H]]

I am just curios about one thing.  if android gets 91% of all new malware then who gets the other 9%  apple?


semp

Symbian and blackberry are the next most compromised systems. Remember all those juicy celeb nude photos that were hacked from blackberry devices?

[coombz]

Apple is losing it's battles in courts around the world

http://www.reuters.com/article/2012/10/24/us-samsung-apple-dutch-court-idUSBRE89N0ER20121024

That's just the latest one, I guess their strategy of "oh crap we're out of ideas so lets sue our top competitors into oblivion so that they can't compete with what little we have out right now" isn't working so well

That company will never come out with another groundbreaking product. Expect more 'Product X mini's '

[Skuzzy]

The particular patent, in that case, has been overturned in the U.S.  A number of patents Apple got are coming under scrutiny and are being overturned.  Mostly for prior art, which was what Samsung has been saying all along.

Not sure what is happening outside the U.S. with those patents.

[warhed]

I am just curios about one thing.  if android gets 91% of all new malware then who gets the other 9%  apple?


semp

The 91% figure is bogus.   Even according to the fake report, it states "91% of new malware."   Not total.   But either way, that's a made up number with no facts to back it up

[MrRiplEy[H]]

The 91% figure is bogus.   Even according to the fake report, it states "91% of new malware."   Not total.   But either way, that's a made up number with no facts to back it up

Cry me a river. The fact of the matter is that Android sees a steady rate of thousands of infections where on iOS there are no reports found of 'in the wild' infections. Or perhaps Google wants to hide bad reports of its worst competitor, would you think?

[warhed]

Cry me a river. The fact of the matter is that Android sees a steady rate of thousands of infections where on iOS there are no reports found of 'in the wild' infections. Or perhaps Google wants to hide bad reports of its worst competitor, would you think?

Apple, like Android has privacy problems with apps secretly viewing data on your phone.   Not a big deal to me.   As far as malicious viruses, they are filtered out of both app stores.   Android is as safe as iOS.   Maybe that will change in the future, maybe not.   

[MrRiplEy[H]]

Apple, like Android has privacy problems with apps secretly viewing data on your phone.   Not a big deal to me.   As far as malicious viruses, they are filtered out of both app stores.   Android is as safe as iOS.   Maybe that will change in the future, maybe not.  

How can you be so retarded lol? It blows my mind! I just posted you half a dozen of examples where malicious software has been undetected in Play store for weeks and tens of thousands to millions of people have installed them. Malicious code that does _not_ just rip your address book using a property that's by design in the iOS for example - no - but place calls or SMS:es to premium price services that cost you real MONEY Understand that these are REAL attacks that happen now on Android - not a theoretic issue published by some researcher after notifying about it to the OS makers.

Every day on average 15-30% of apps are removed from Play store for having malware. And some of them sit there for several days or weeks and people install them in multitude.

After all this you cover your eyes and shout 'nanananaannanaa I dont heeeaarr anythiiiinng!!! Android is perfectly safe!' I guess you just can't understand the difference.  

[warhed]

Dozens of examples of malware being removed promptly?   I agree, they're doing a good job keeping the wolves at bay

[Shuffler]

How can you be so retarded lol? It blows my mind! I just posted you half a dozen of examples where malicious software has been undetected in Play store for weeks and tens of thousands to millions of people have installed them. Malicious code that does _not_ just rip your address book using a property that's by design in the iOS for example - no - but place calls or SMS:es to premium price services that cost you real MONEY Understand that these are REAL attacks that happen now on Android - not a theoretic issue published by some researcher after notifying about it to the OS makers.

Every day on average 15-30% of apps are removed from Play store for having malware. And some of them sit there for several days or weeks and people install them in multitude.

After all this you cover your eyes and shout 'nanananaannanaa I dont heeeaarr anythiiiinng!!! Android is perfectly safe!' I guess you just can't understand the difference.  

 

[ACE]

Apple fanbois!!  I love them

[Butcher]

Apple fanbois!!  I love them

Sums up people who believe apple is a superior product, maybe price wise.

[Delirium]

After all this you cover your eyes and shout 'nanananaannanaa I dont heeeaarr anythiiiinng!!! Android is perfectly safe!'

Wow, hypocrisy is pretty thick in here.

Do you really think your iPhone is just as secure, or worse yet, more secure? If so, I have some great ocean front property for you to buy in Iowa.

[guncrasher]

How can you be so retarded lol? It blows my mind! I just posted you half a dozen of examples where malicious software has been undetected in Play store for weeks and tens of thousands to millions of people have installed them. Malicious code that does _not_ just rip your address book using a property that's by design in the iOS for example - no - but place calls or SMS:es to premium price services that cost you real MONEY Understand that these are REAL attacks that happen now on Android - not a theoretic issue published by some researcher after notifying about it to the OS makers.

Every day on average 15-30% of apps are removed from Play store for having malware. And some of them sit there for several days or weeks and people install them in multitude.

After all this you cover your eyes and shout 'nanananaannanaa I dont heeeaarr anythiiiinng!!! Android is perfectly safe!' I guess you just can't understand the difference.  

so according to you every day 15% to 30% of new apps must be uploaded just to replace the apps with malware along with a couple more thousand to make it seem like the market is growing.  and the next day another 15% to 30% of apps are found to have malware and must be removed.

so how can they keep up with the market growing if they are removing 90,000 to 180,000 apps a day?  (assuming there's 600,000 apps in the market) are they only uploading malware to the market?  they must have malware sweatshops in china to keep up this kind of demand.


semp