when talking about android, to me this is very grey area...
I always thought, as per wikipedia, and per rooting my device as it looks, that "Android OS"
is nothing more than Linux as core and I guess Java as shell ?
but if its Linux at core, then how can it be prone to malwares that brick the system ?
wouldn't it be just voulnerable to java part and just screw the UI and maybe gadget behaviour ?
then comes the "antivirus" part
on the online "markets", there are so many of them, even brand ones (avira, avast, sophos, norton, nod32....)
and all are free, but, do they even work ? , some of what I have read on net, they don't do much, except scanning
for "potential threats", but supposedly they don't detect trojans and such...
?