Monday, 11 March 2013
There are two kinds of people on earth: those who believe in mobile malware, and those who do not believe. While in the first category, 99.9% are employed in the antivirus industry dying, they publish the numbers do not lie.
Firm F-Secure, a specialist in computer security issues has published the results of its latest survey regarding malware on mobile devices. Malware is not, strictly speaking, a virus is a program that pretends to be another program or uses the vulnerability of the user to exploit the vulnerability of the system. If you download the Play Store an application called 4ngry Birdz! with a description in Chinese, it is likely that this is a malware: Google if censorship did not work, because your only protects you.
That's why we find it difficult to endorse the speech alarming antivirus developers trying year after year to install on the phone market with arguments they do not. Maintain the fear of danger, is their stock in trade, even if the systems are a priori safe (on Android or iOS, a user does not have root privileges can not give an application sufficient rights to contaminate system itself). So, take the following figures for what they are: a summary of the number of malware present on the mobile operating systems and not their actual effectiveness or danger allowed.
As expected, Android is winning the palm of malware with a good 79% of the total. The explanation is simple: Google Play is a place poorly controlled, the system accepts the installation of unsigned third-party applications natively and piracy is easy: a great range of easy prey, especially since it became the most widely used system in the world. Symbian is a close second and three are less affected with iOS 0.7% of the total, Windows Phone and BlackBerry with 0.3% of the total. If we compare these figures with active users, is that iOS is doing better.
Firm F-Secure, a specialist in computer security issues has published the results of its latest survey regarding malware on mobile devices. Malware is not, strictly speaking, a virus is a program that pretends to be another program or uses the vulnerability of the user to exploit the vulnerability of the system. If you download the Play Store an application called 4ngry Birdz! with a description in Chinese, it is likely that this is a malware: Google if censorship did not work, because your only protects you.
That's why we find it difficult to endorse the speech alarming antivirus developers trying year after year to install on the phone market with arguments they do not. Maintain the fear of danger, is their stock in trade, even if the systems are a priori safe (on Android or iOS, a user does not have root privileges can not give an application sufficient rights to contaminate system itself). So, take the following figures for what they are: a summary of the number of malware present on the mobile operating systems and not their actual effectiveness or danger allowed.
As expected, Android is winning the palm of malware with a good 79% of the total. The explanation is simple: Google Play is a place poorly controlled, the system accepts the installation of unsigned third-party applications natively and piracy is easy: a great range of easy prey, especially since it became the most widely used system in the world. Symbian is a close second and three are less affected with iOS 0.7% of the total, Windows Phone and BlackBerry with 0.3% of the total. If we compare these figures with active users, is that iOS is doing better.
