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Derbasti on March 2, 2011 | parent | context | favorite | on: The mother of all Android malware has arrived

Never mind walled gardens, but Google could at least run some basic virus scanner before posting stuff on the market.

dpcan on March 2, 2011 [–]

Smartest post on this entire thread.

They clearly analyze the APK before uploading and look at the Manifest, etc, so why not do a rootkit scan of some kind.

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