| > The closest you came was saying that "Actual "take over your computer" malware doesn't exist in either the Play Store or the App Store." but this is directly contradicted by this story from just yesterday: http://www.slashgear.com/viking-horde-malware-uses-google-pl.... (plenty of other sites covering this too) That link says these two things: > There's a new piece of malware in the wild, and it's turning phones and tablets alike into a part of a large botnet. This is use of both the ability to execute software within Android's sandbox along with the ability to transfer data using HTTP/HTTPS to send data on the Internet. That's what a botnet is. > While unrooted devices are susceptible to the actions listed above, rooted devices are at a greater risk. On these devices, additional software is installed that allows it to execute any code remotely. What's more, it uses your root access privileges to make it difficult, if not impossible to manually remove the malware. This doesn't affect anyone who's using Android as either distributed by Google, or by anyone who's distributing an Android-branded phone. That is to say, unless you purposely go very far out of your way to install custom system software that deliberately weakens critical Android security features -thus putting your Android device pretty squarely in the realm of PC-level security-, then there is no software in the Play Store that will take over your Android device. Pointing to that and claiming that it's evidence of a failure of the Play Store is like winding your seatbelt tightly around your neck (rather than securing the buckle to its clasp), driving at highway speeds straight into a bridge support, and then blaming the seatbelt when your head pops off of your neck. :) |