Anonymous
Unregistered
http://www.majorgeeks.com/story.php?id=35018
Android users beware. If you are downloading apps from the official Google Play store, you should know that in the past month, according to a Trend Micro report, the number of malicious apps has doubled from 10,000 to 20,000.
mikiem2
Moderator
Thanks for the info but how can I be "beware" ?What action or precautions must I take, please ?
http://www.av-test.org/en/tests/android/
There are real AV apps now, many free.
I also don't add apps that don't have a lot of reviews -- that number to me is as, if not more important than whether those reviews are mediocre or excellent. Also watch any accounts you have on your Droid device -- read where someone at Microsoft thinks he's come across an Android bot-net. If you have several e-mail accts for example, maybe add each of them to the contact lists for the e-mail acct(s) you have set up on your Android device -- if you ever get the same spam e-mailed to all your accounts then maybe your device is infected -- that alleged Droid bot-net took over Yahoo e-mail accts to send spam to every one of your contacts.
mikiem2
Moderator
http://www.bbc.com/news/technology-18734852
Google disputes Android botnet spam claim
mikiem2
Moderator
http://www.net-security.org/malware_news.php?id=2179
New Android Trojan secretly buys apps
Seen in China -- for now...
Anonymous
Unregistered
Mac may be better if you like to pay the Mac Tax only 1 Trojan so far
http://www.engadget.com/2012/07/05/spam-happy-ios-trojan-slips-into-app-store-gets-pulled/
Spam-happy iOS trojan slips into App Store, gets pulled in rapid fashion
You could call it technological baptism of sorts... just not the kind Apple would want. A Russian scam app known as Find and Call managed to hit the App Store and create havoc for those who dared a download, making it the first non-experimental malware to hit iOS without first needing a jailbreak. As Kaspersky found out, it wasn't just scamware, but a trojan: the title would swipe the contacts after asking permission, send them to a remote server behind the scenes and text spam the daylights out of any phone number in that list.
We'd still like to know just why the app got there in the first place.
mikiem2
Moderator
Mac may be better if you like to pay the Mac Tax
Makes me laugh, because while no one here is anti-Mac, with the exception of my one tech challenged brother-in-law, no one else could force themselves to buy an Apple product because of that added cost. I mean they're nice & all, but it'd be like going to the most expensive department store & paying $25 for the same T-Shirt I can buy at Michael's for $2. The way I see it Apple thinks so too, or else they wouldn't be trying to stop Samsung sales around the world. :)
Whiterabbit-uk
Games Guru
On the subject of Mac's here's an article about why the poster thinks Macs 'suck' We are talking cost comparisons here.
http://macromeme.com/dog/why-not-to-buy-mac.html
Personally I'd not seen a Mac interface for a good 10 years and was pleasantly surprised at the latest operating system and it's visuals. It was on display at my local store. The reason I've not seen a Mac display for so long is that I rarely bother to look at off the shelf computers because apart from my first desktop PC (a 386 way back when) I've always preferred to build my own, but my kids wanted to play on the iPads that were on display. We rarely go out shopping as a family since my accident, so it's sort of like a day out with the family. But, you know kids, they soon get bored of shopping, so a visit to the computing section was made, so that they could be left with the Ipads for a short while. That's when I saw a gleaming new Mac on display. Still I wouldn't buy one.
mikiem2
Moderator
Personally I'd not seen a Mac interface for a good 10 years and was pleasantly surprised at the latest operating system and it's visuals
They are nice, all Apple's hardware is IMO. But as you're anticipating win8, WR, might be amused that iPhone users can now install a 3rd party, fake Metro interface or screen. :)
mikiem2
Moderator
"iPad & iPhone may be ok but no way will I get a Mac PC as for one very hight price in new zealand you look at $3000 and a windows one less than $1000
allso Mac is just to look at and for work no games"
At one time Mac hardware used to be different, & there were some jobs where it actually might have been better. Apple really cultivated their fan boys in the media industries or fields, so at one time some jobs were easier or could only be done on a Mac because that's where the software was. Now however Macs are just more-or-less PCs with special Bios firmware for the iOS DRM -- Google/Bing on hackintosh & you'll see how somewhat popular it is to run iOS on non-Mac hardware. It's not just for fun, but useful if you're doing compatibility testing, or absolutely have to run a Mac-only app. Lots of Mac users overcome the fact that there's more Windows-only software by using Boot Camp to dual boot into Windows & iOS, or like many *nix users, run Windows in a VM.
There's some talk recently about Microsoft trying to become like Apple, based on recent comments by Ballmer, but personally can't/don't see MS or Google really competing in that slot. Sure they may contract to have their own hardware built, but they'd have to set up a 2nd, separate company, & then, assuming Apple doesn't fall apart without Jobs, it'd take years before they were seriously considered an Apple alternative... I don't believe there's more than a handful of people at MS &/or Google today who truly understand building a luxury brand, & being connected to MS or Google would make it doubly hard -- look at all Toyota's gone through establishing the Lexus brand since '89, which was created basically because the same luxury cars weren't taken seriously with a Toyota name plate [I think you had to be a bit of an enthusiast to appreciate how good their their later Supra sports or Cressida lux models really were]. MS &/or Google may come to sell a technically superior alternative to whatever Apple products, but they need to realize that tech superiority has nothing to do with Apple's sales.
mikiem2
Moderator
http://www.symantec.com/connect/blogs/androiddropdialer-identified-google-play
Android.Dropdialer Identified on Google Play
Now removed, but "...have generated in the range of 50,000 to 100,000 downloads".
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