With Android 4.2, Google has taken steps to address the lingering threat of malware on its mobile platform with a new security tool that quickly crosschecks apps for harmful code. But a computer scientist at North Carolina State University has put Google's solution through a thorough test and found that barely 15 percent of malicious samples were properly identified by the scanner. In conducting his test, Xuxian Jiang loaded 1,260 instances of Android malware onto the recently-released Nexus 10 and examined which of those triggered a warning to users. Only 193 of them did so, amounting to a lackluster 15.32-percent detection rate.
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The subpar performance is particularly surprising since, according to...
via The Verge - All Posts http://www.theverge.com/2012/12/10/3751202/google-android-malware-scanner-test
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