vinifera Posted December 19, 2016 Share Posted December 19, 2016 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... ? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tripredacus Posted December 19, 2016 Share Posted December 19, 2016 Linux isn't some miracle cure for being safe from a virus. It has viruses because it is a widely used platform, it is just that simple. The reason why Mac was able to go so long under the notion it was virus free was because MacOS had such a small piece of the market share that virus writers didn't develop for the platform. I don't have antivirus on a phone, so I can't say if they are "break-fix" products or not. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mcinwwl Posted December 19, 2016 Share Posted December 19, 2016 Internets say AV on Android is not a real cure: http://www.howtogeek.com/232436/android-has-a-big-security-problem-but-antivirus-apps-cant-do-much/ In theory, if Android provided enough low-level access to antivirus apps, an antivirus app could actually be useful. However, it doesn’t, so antivirus apps aren’t useful now. Adding enough permissions for antivirus apps to function would also open new paths for malware to take advantage of those same low-level permissions. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
vinifera Posted December 20, 2016 Author Share Posted December 20, 2016 no wonder they are all free Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dencorso Posted December 21, 2016 Share Posted December 21, 2016 @vinifera: when you set this thread's title to "breal the myths", what you actually had in mind was, perchance, "Break the Myths" ? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
vinifera Posted December 28, 2016 Author Share Posted December 28, 2016 yeh, my fingers suck Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dencorso Posted December 28, 2016 Share Posted December 28, 2016 On 12/21/2016 at 7:29 PM, dencorso said: @vinifera: when you set this thread's title to "breal the myths", what you actually had in mind was, perchance, "Break the Myths" ? 20 minutes ago, vinifera said: yeh, my fingers suck OK. Fixed! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dibya Posted December 29, 2016 Share Posted December 29, 2016 I have installed AVG free on My mamas Note 3 neo still now it has not detected anything . Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jaclaz Posted December 30, 2016 Share Posted December 30, 2016 (edited) 23 hours ago, Dibya said: I have installed AVG free on My mamas Note 3 neo still now it has not detected anything . Good . Keep us posted please, a daily update would probably be overkill , but once a week would be OK. @Vinifera Fresh from the press, maybe of interest to you:https://articles.forensicfocus.com/2016/12/30/who-why-what-android-spying/ jaclaz Edited December 30, 2016 by jaclaz Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
vinifera Posted January 29, 2017 Author Share Posted January 29, 2017 mmm nice article, thanks for link well i'm on android 4.3, butreading that article, i'm doing good haha ad-away + afwall + greenify and removed few services from os base install makes things good even on web they have my wrong location, as they can't pin point me BUT let me ask another question, again security wise having Flash installed on winblows is a medium security risk but what about rooted Android phone ? I have Flash 11.1 (it was last one to be made) installed, naturally blocked by firewall but do android "files" can exploit it via flash like on win32 or not ? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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