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Google guru blasts Android virus doomsayers as 'charlatans'

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Google's open-source program manager has launched an entertaining rant against firms offering mobile security software, accusing them of selling worthless software and of being "charlatans and scammers". Chris DiBona, Google's open-source programs manager, argues that neither smartphones based on Google's Android nor Apple's iOS need anti-virus protection. Anyone telling you different is a snake-oil salesman, he said.

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Comments (9)

henke54 ·
Quoting:Microsoft Uses Android Malware Hysteria to Offer Free Windows Phones Microsoft will give away free Windows Phones to five Android users with the worst malware horror stories.
http://www.pcworld.com/article/246204/microsoft_uses_android...
tracyanne ·
Quoting:Twitter user Nick Rosier called Microsoft's offer of free Windows Phone for Android malware victims "harsh." Rosier added, "Haven't they suffered enough?"
henke54 ·
Someone (on a Dutch forum with this article) asked : " Can i also have a free phone when i tell of a 'horror virus story' with my windows PC ?" ...... ;-P
Fettoosh ·
Quoting:Can i also have a free phone when i tell a 'horror virus story' on my windows PC ?


Be serious. If MS obliges to every Windows horror story, it will definitely go bankrupt.

jdixon ·
Speaking of Windows horror stories, we've noticed an increasing number of relatively undetectable rootkits at work. The only thing which seems to find and remove them is the latest apparently beta version of TDSSKkiller. We have no idea how they're getting on the machines, as at least one of them wasn't even accessing the Internet. Entertaining, but what else can I expect with Windows systems?
gus3 ·
The vectors are wearing sneakers.
henke54 ·
Windows Phone SMS attack discovered, reboots device and disables messaging hub : http://www.winrumors.com/windows-phone-sms-attack-discovered...
skelband ·
Well bang goes the theory that Windows has more viruses purely because there are more units out there.

There're hardly any Windows Phone 7 in the big wild world and they all seem to be riddled with malware already.....
DrGeoffrey ·
Quoting:There're hardly any Windows Phone 7 in the big wild world and they all seem to be riddled with malware already.....


(In my best Claude Rains voice) I'm Shocked. Shocked!

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