Help Major Android Malware Threat Reported

[TVCCS]

The Mother Of All Android Malware Has Arrived: Stolen Apps Released To The Market That Root Your Phone, Steal Your Data, And Open Backdoor | Android News, Reviews, Apps, Games, Phones, Tablets, Tips, Mods, Videos, Tutorials - Android Police

 

[lburgguy]

Scary stuff, thanks for the info.

 

[RocketFoot]

Damn! I wonder if Lookout and AVG virus scanners can pick this type of thing up?

 

[David73]

I have lookout... and so far no problems

 

[xbrokdikdogx]

More FUD. I have no anti virus and no problems. Keep in mind that Android is not windows. If you have any sense at all you don't need to worry about anti virus on Android. This specific threat was pretty obvious and only people who download and install apps without paying attention would get hit. Unfortunately now that so many of the windows anti virus makers are getting into the mobile business we are assured of more virus attacks. If no virus apps are released folks wont keep wasting their phones resources on the apps, which we all know the anti virus companies won't allow that. They are the shadiest companies I can think of.

 

[TVCCS]

Faster Forward - Google pulls malware apps from Android Market

 

[r00t]

LookOut detected it.

It's sad that this happened, they said 200,000 affected by this.