More than 700,000 are infected with malware Android - Android Help

These are the data that shows a study by Trend Micro, whereby the amount of Android that are infected with malware is increasing. The concern is that in most cases, malware is installed next to the applications that users install, totally common place every Android users.

This means that when you install an application, we are installing the malware. And no, that does not mean that you can not install applications, or malware that can be installed with any application. Actually, it is concrete applications. For example, WhatsApp, Facebook, or Twitter, are malware applications. However, it can be some videogames, or some applications that have not been professionally developed, but aim only install the malware on the smartphone, posing, sometimes by popular applications.

According to the study itself

Trend Micro, the most widespread type of malware is that he gets that we subscribe to premium SMS services, so we are charging daily or very often a sum of money that we have not authorized to pay, even though the messages themselves have come from your smartphone. Thus, the final bill will be really expensive mobile, and the worst is that there will be an operator error, but it was us who have installed the malware on your Android smartphone.

The amount of Android

infected has grown by 200,000 units since the last survey, leaving a figure of 700,000 infected Android, which could well have each of us.

To make matters worse, the fragmentation so prevalent on Android, it makes the problem worse. You know that fragmentation means that there are a number of Android smartphones with different characteristics. However, the malware tends to be compatible with Android functions, or most smartphones. In this way it is achieved that the malware affects a large number of smartphone. However, solving security problems is not simple, since each manufacturer should release a patch for the security flaw, and should be one specific for each smartphone, in most cases. Obviously, this makes it almost impossible to solve security problems, unless it is a very modern smartphone, and that is also a high-end.