Posted on November 18, 2011 by Phone Arena in Mobile, Tech & Gadgets Here’s an interesting suggestion – there’s no real malware on Android and all those reports we’ve been seeing in the last months/years are all a scam. That’s the position of Google’s open-source software guru Chris DiBona, and what he meant is not that there are no threats whatsoever, but that the sandboxing model on mobile platforms prevents viruses from being as dangerous as traditional Windows malware. Moreover, companies making the so called anti-virus solutions for Android have been exploiting you, the user:
“Virus companies are playing on your fears to try to sell you BS protection software for Android, RIM, and, iOS,” DiBona posted on Google+. “They are charlatans and scammers. If you work for a company selling virus protection for Android, RIM or iOS, you should be ashamed of yourself.”
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