Friday, March 11, 2011

A false security tool for Android installs virus

Google turns to look at China from where comes the latest threat of infection to the operating system has been developed for mobile, Android. 58 After detecting malicious programs offered applications from the Android Market, which had been downloaded at 260,000 phones, used the Android Market Secutiry Tool to block and clean applications infectious malware phones.

Symantec has located an application of Chinese origin, which mimics the Android security tools and offers download to clean the phone. It is actually a Trojan that contains a virus which apparently allows giving instructions for sending SMS. Google has warned customers that they must use Android accredited sites for these purposes.


An expert from Kaspersky has questioned the safety system developed by Google for Android.

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