Security :: Create A Virus In Android Operating System?
Dec 31, 2010
Http://www.breitbart.com/article.php...show_article=1
I just read the above article. Someone in Communist China has found a way to create a virus in the Android operating system. Android is a Linux fork.
It looks as though the virus is quite specific: it only works on certain apps downloaded from Communist China. I'm hoping that the Google Android version of Linux is different enough from the standard Linux it was "forked" off of that it will be of no concern to we desktop Linux users.
Does this mean that we Linux users must begin running anti-virus software as a continuous process now? What is the chance standard distros will be affected?
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Mar 16, 2011
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In this video, Tim Armstrong, a malware researcher at Kaspersky Lab talks with Ryan Naraine about the strengths and weaknesses of the Android operating system. Armstrong looks at strengths and weaknesses of the open-source platform and warns about the risks associated with jailbreaking/rooting Android devices.
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