Android antiviruses essentially useless

Nov 12, 2011 by Dennis Fan

According to research carried out by AV-Test.org, most free antiviruses for Android have abysmal malware detection rates, rendering them essentially useless. Out of all the following antiviruses, Zoner Antivirus scored the best, detecting 55/172 of threats, which is about 32%; which is very, very low:

• Antivirus Free
• BluePoint Antivirus Free
• GuardX Antivirus
• Kinetoo Malware Scan
• LabMSF Antivirus beta
• Privateer Lite
• Zoner AntiVirus Free

Not only is it a malware infested platform, its antiviruses aren’t even cutting it anymore. Who knows; maybe this stuff’ll improve.

(via Neowin)

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