NetworkWorld - Open Source Fact and Fiction: How Real Is The Malware Threat To Android?

We have heard of it, but do we really fear it?

By Alan Shimel
05/04/12

Many of us have heard that our smartphones and tablets already are or soon will be the targets of attack by the malware industry (yes it is an industry). However, most of you probably don't have any security software running on your devices. Why is that? Well, one of the big reasons is that for all of the talk we have not really seen malware that really does anything really bad to our phones yet. In fact, there may have even a bit of the "boy who cried wolf" going on where security companies pulled the firealarm for alleged malware outbreaks when the alleged malware was really just some adware.

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