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In the discussion thread: FBI warns that Android phones are havens for malware [View all]

Mon Oct 15, 2012, 04:59 PM

KamaAina (45,190 posts)

2. This is not surprising. For years Windows PCs had many more problems with malware than Macs.

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not only because Windows was (and is) ridiculously easy to exploit, but because the user base is much larger. So, malware writers, just like legitimate product developers, targeted the larger market.

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62 replies	Author	Time	Post
FBI warns that Android phones are havens for malware [View all]	onehandle	Oct 2012	OP
BUT APPLE IS EVIL!!	Indydem	Oct 2012	#1
Free me from the walled garden!	onehandle	Oct 2012	#13
Freedom is an ugly thing	Xithras	Oct 2012	#54
I don't understand your comment	Bradical79	Oct 2012	#28
I guess you don't read many tech blogs.	Indydem	Oct 2012	#29
Yeah, I'm aware of that. I take "evil" to mean something different on this forum than a tech site.	Bradical79	Oct 2012	#33
This is not surprising. For years Windows PCs had many more problems with malware than Macs.	KamaAina	Oct 2012	#2
Android is Windows for the 21st Century. nt	onehandle	Oct 2012	#14
Hm...	boppers	Oct 2012	#25
Ruh roh.	Panasonic	Oct 2012	#3
He may have been talking about the Galaxy S II ...	mwooldri	Oct 2012	#22
Just protect it	MuseRider	Oct 2012	#37
Not sure you can protect Android	unc70	Oct 2012	#43
what you can't protect are stupid end users	frylock	Oct 2012	#47
You can't protect smart end users either	unc70	Oct 2012	#49
"Don't do stuff to your hardware if you don't understand it" is eminently reasonable advice. (nt)	Posteritatis	Oct 2012	#4
I suppose that to a fanboy	sharp_stick	Oct 2012	#5
Metamoderating aside, I'd figure FBI announcements count as news. (nt)	Posteritatis	Oct 2012	#9
That's how I read it. nt	onehandle	Oct 2012	#12
AVAST has a great AV for Android. And it's free.	Blue State Bandit	Oct 2012	#6
So you have to have an AV running in the background?	Indydem	Oct 2012	#18
i downloaded and installed it	barbtries	Oct 2012	#44
I believe it	Lucy Fer	Oct 2012	#7
Then how will they make money? They've lost 20 billion on Android. nt	onehandle	Oct 2012	#15
But yet the	FredisDead	Oct 2012	#8
Same factories.	onehandle	Oct 2012	#16
Google has lost 20 billion on Android	FredisDead	Oct 2012	#17
Google is apparently losing money on Android	Art_from_Ark	Oct 2012	#40
A number of analysts have estimated around 20 billion.	onehandle	Oct 2012	#46
"no Chinese workers are complaining to Google about the harsh working conditions"	boppers	Oct 2012	#26
I am aware of how the market works	FredisDead	Oct 2012	#42
Yup. Blaming Apple is not relevant.	boppers	Oct 2012	#55
Foxconn also does business with Google as of this year.	Bradical79	Oct 2012	#34
Oh, please....	defacto7	Oct 2012	#10
Exactly!	TM99	Oct 2012	#21
It's not the OS, it's the crap piled on it.	boppers	Oct 2012	#27
He who controls the crap owns the crap	TM99	Oct 2012	#36
if you want to call it "making it harder to pile crap"	defacto7	Oct 2012	#38
Not using predictable memory locations is not crap. That's hardware design.	boppers	Oct 2012	#56
no, I'm not talking about cmd.exe... it lower than that.	defacto7	Oct 2012	#57
So, is it bash? Korn? Csh? Tcsh?	boppers	Oct 2012	#58
Warning?	defacto7	Oct 2012	#59
You have nothing to show me?	boppers	Nov 2012	#62
intelligent end users make it harder to pile crap on it	frylock	Oct 2012	#48
FBI warns that stupid people are installing malware on their android devices..	frylock	Oct 2012	#11
thanks...	MrsBrady	Oct 2012	#19
And morons are responsible for the bulk of this	Hutzpa	Oct 2012	#20
And if they're old enough ...	GeorgeGist	Oct 2012	#50
Android by its open nature is more suspect to malware.	mwooldri	Oct 2012	#23
Android IS Linux	LTR	Oct 2012	#32
Apple is Unix (Linux) or more exactly BSD UNIX.	defacto7	Oct 2012	#35
Android and Linux share common code.	mwooldri	Oct 2012	#51
The FBI should know about spyware.....	lib2DaBone	Oct 2012	#24
Sometimes it's the apps themselves that you have to worry about	LTR	Oct 2012	#30
Yes, just use good common sense.	MuseRider	Oct 2012	#39
I am an Android user (who has used it to post on DU at times)	alp227	Oct 2012	#31
i love my old fashioned cell phone	Tabasco_Dave	Oct 2012	#41
Here, too	IDemo	Oct 2012	#45
Sounds like the FBI has a hefty portion of their pension in AAPL. nt	Comrade_McKenzie	Oct 2012	#52
That would be smart, seeing as APPL is projected to rise 60% within a year. nt	onehandle	Oct 2012	#53
What division of the FBI - and since when does the FBI do such things?	hexola	Oct 2012	#60
This is not unprecedented. Android is so vulnerable, that they had to speak to the criminal aspect.	onehandle	Oct 2012	#61

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