'Open' to Infection
/Symantec has discovered a new Android botnet that is still thriving in the Android Market and has already been downloaded several million times this year.
The Trojan ‘Android.Counterclank’ was packaged in at least 13 free games published by three different publishers, making it harder to trace. Symantec notified Google on Thursday and at press time, 9 of the apps were still available in Google’s official app store.
My parents currently have Android phones because that is what they were given as a freebie when their carrier was gobbled up by AT&T. They run an antivirus app on them. It’s pretty ridiculous, if you ask me.
Android’s openness is totally awesome.
[via Sebastiaan de With]