Number of the week: 10 million malicious Android apps - Android World

That awful lot of applications for Android exist is no secret. And as a result is a real chance that you install an application that has evil intentions. According to Kaspersky Lab’s it, hold 10 million kwaardige apps for Android.

Evil

few days ago, Kaspersky Lab has published a number where you can be sick. The IT security company claims that because there are now 10 million malicious apps exist for Android. In January 2014 only by Kaspersky than 200,000 types of mobile malware detected. This is less than 34% more than in November 2013.

Kaspersky Lab notes that there are only 1,103,104 apps were published on January 30, 2014 at the Google Play store. How is it that there are 10 million unreliable Android applications? This happens because the Google Play store is the official store, but far from the only one. There are dozens of other, non-official app stores. Here We therefore have no control over, and the probability that this is a bad app, is much greater.

Safety Tips

that you want, such applications are not installed on your device is obvious. But how do you protect yourself against it? Kaspersky Lab provides various tips. First of all, let your outstanding developer mode on your Android device best. In addition, let the box next to the option “install applications from external sources” empty. These two settings ensure that all untrusted many apps can not be installed.

Furthermore

Kaspersky advises to only install from the Google Play store applications. These include Google controls a large part of the applications in which there are, and thus filters out already here.

Check Rights

If you still want to install applications from other, more risky sources, make sure that your applications are always verified by Google. This can even if you do not install apps via the Play Store. You can do this in your security settings by enabling “Apps verify” on newer Android devices. On older Android devices you choose to install the app for ‘Verify and install “when you want to install. APK (installer) Additionally, you can also install an additional security application, such as Kaspersky. This is less able to scan the contents of apps than Google that can as a normal app like Kaspersky fewer privileges on your device, but it can hold back other things in mind.

last tip: be sure to read all the rights, after which the application wants to have when you install it. So it is rather suspicious when an application that takes photos, also wants access to your text messages.

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