Android Security Test 2017 – 100+ Apps tested

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AV-Comparatives

Android Security Test 2017 – 100+ Apps tested

https://www.av-comparatives.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/02/avc_android_201702_en.pdf

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Conclusion

Amongst the security apps available from the Google Play Store there are a few which have so many bugs that they either cannot be installed, or crash

so frequently as to be unusable.

 

Some of the Android security products detected far too few of the malware samples in our test – in some cases literally nothing - to be recommended as

anti-malware apps. In a few cases, this might be due to apps having been abandoned by the developer and thus no longer being updated in the

Play Store. Whilst such cases cannot be regarded as scams, we consider it irresponsible of the developers not to remove these apps from the Store

 

 

A few products from relatively well-known vendors did not score very well. It is possible that the manufacturers have developed them purely for marketing reasons.

That is to say, there is not much money in the Android security-app market, but having an Android app visible in the Google Play Store helps to keep the vendor visible, and may thus promote their other, more profitable products such as Windows security programs.

 

Intressant..och samtidigt tragiskt.