The majority, not all. Of course if Google filters the play store there are going to be less malware infected apps there. But there are known cases where SMS trojans have spread to thousands of users before detected right from the official store.
I'm not dumb enough to start to jailbreak my iPhone and I don't install anything but the most necessary apps on it even from the store obviously.
That Sophos article is a joke - any windows malware that may be found on Mac doesn't affect it at all and originate from windows users. There are less than a handful of known attacks going around for Macs compared to multiple millions for Windows. If a Mac user uses pirated software of course he risks getting infected. But with common sense a Mac is still multitudes safer to use than any windows machine - by using digitally signed apps from the official store and browsing with adblock+noscript.
there it is you just gave the answer to your own misleading statement. anybody dumb enough to go to a secondary android market has a big risk of getting malware just like anybody dumb enough to get iphone apps from a secondary market would.
your statement that 15% of all android apps are malware is misleading as it also would apply to the iphone based on your own logic. even your links and my own link which comes from a company that wants to sell you security software backs up my own misleading statement that the iphone is just as being at risk as the android market. as for my link being a joke, seriously what is different than your own link? let me post another statement that comes from your link.
"Thankfully, Webroot’s diversified portfolio of market propositions, has already released on the market applications aiming to protect end and corporate users from mobile threats like the ones covered in Juniper Network’s report"
so does the above statement makes the the information on that link credible or is the information made more to make users think that it's a big problem and they must buy their software in order to be safe. i think your own statement are made in the same spirit as the y2k the "sky is falling and we are all gonna die" joke.
so unless you have any more misleading links that the android play store has 15% of its apps as malware then you are wrong. but please feel free to post anymore links to back up your claim.
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