Android malware increasing, getting smarter

[Redondo]

http://www.foxnews.com/tech/2015/01/16/android-malware-increasing-getting-smarter/?intcmp=ob_homepage_tech&intcmp=obnetwork

 

Most Americans still don't worry about malware on their mobile devices. But the halcyon days of Android innocence are fast coming to a close, according to a new report by San Francisco-based mobile-security-software developer Lookout, Inc.

 

Android malware has grown smarter and more prevalent in the past year, Lookout found, and as a result, 7 percent of Android device owners in the United States encountered malware in 2014. That's a 75 percent increase from the 4-percent encounter rate of 2013.

[Vegas Halo Fan]

One of the first things I did after I bought my Samsung Galaxy S5 was to install an antivirus program. I haven't run into anything yet on my scans, but I run one pretty often.

[Jobu]

Company that sells product insists you need product. Film at 11.

[Vegas Halo Fan]

I see that this is from Fox News, so the people writing the viruses are obviously liberal Democrats.

[Redondo]

One of the first things I did after I bought my Samsung Galaxy S5 was to install an antivirus program. I haven't run into anything yet on my scans, but I run one pretty often.

 

 We have Samsung Galaxy in my family. What program do you run?

[Vegas Halo Fan]

 We have Samsung Galaxy in my family. What program do you run?

 

I run the free version of AVG Antivirus. There are others out there as well, many at no cost.

[gotbeer]

 We have Samsung Galaxy in my family. What program do you run?

 

Lookout.  But the paid version comes with Tmobile Jump.  So I don't worry about it much.

 

BTW.  Tmobile just released lollipop for the Galaxy s5.