Reply to post: Re: Jealous

Honey, why are porno apps on your Android?! Er, um, malware did it!

Crazy Operations Guy

Re: Jealous

Its coming from 3rd party app stores with counterfeit apps. No matter how good your security is, you still need to give fairly high-level rights to a user when they are installing an app. Combine this with the fact that a very large portion of users don't bother paying attention to the permissions that an app is requesting, and you end up with malware getting installed despite any security protections.

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