Comments on: Android Market has 22 apps pulled by Google to prevent fraudulent charges

By: Kcullen150

Kcullen150 — Sat, 25 Feb 2012 18:48:00 +0000

I want to know how to get the Android app. Pokerist pulled from market. They lie cheat and steal real money from ppl. And seriously need to be shut down. I got many ppl to back me up on this. Plz email me kcullen150@gmail.com

By: Guest

Guest — Sat, 17 Dec 2011 17:23:00 +0000

Well if they want to guarantee that a product is safe they are putting on there site, yes they will hire people. Price of business. If these problems keep occurring, Android could see is fall in the future. Think if you were to have a business that sold potentially harmful products to your computer,phone, etc. You would not be around very long.

By: realitycheck

realitycheck — Sat, 17 Dec 2011 12:26:00 +0000

How do u propose to test more than a billion apps? Hire a few million testers? who will pay their salary?

By: Guest

Guest — Wed, 14 Dec 2011 18:14:00 +0000

I am researching moving from and iPhone to an Android, but hearing about the malware has raised some eyebrows. If the apps with malware are coming from the Android Market, then Google needs to Police what they accept. If a developer want to submit an app for people to purchase or download for free, they should have to submit the app to Google for testing. Google take the app, loads it on to some test Androids (5-7) and test the app out. Also have a team the analyzes the source code to ensure it is clean. This includes any updates for apps already on the market. If an app is found to have problems, Google send the app back to the developer to fix it. If the app is found to have a virus or malware of any kind, the developer is ban’d from providing apps. Amazon should do the same (I think I heard they do, not sure). One of the things I like about the Android is that people can customize it more freely, and it is easier to develop apps for the Android phones. Now if someone gets an app from some unknown site on the internet, well you get what you get. If the problem is coming from apps from Android Market or Amazon, then Google and Amazon need to do better policing.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Wed, 14 Dec 2011 13:54:00 +0000

so what if they downloaded an app that you don’t like? it doesn’t mean that they should suffer from a less secure environment than you. having an “that’s what you deserve because you’re an idiot” doesn’t help prevent malware from spreading.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Wed, 14 Dec 2011 13:52:00 +0000

makes sense

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Wed, 14 Dec 2011 13:52:00 +0000

write their malware

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Wed, 14 Dec 2011 13:50:00 +0000

if Apple performs quality contol over the software they disseminate to their devices and Android allows malware to be distributed easily…..then say goodbye to the Android market

By: Consumer

Consumer — Wed, 14 Dec 2011 08:35:00 +0000

I have said this many, many times before. Google start curating your own market!!

It does not matter if you are smart enough to avoid these types of apps, or not.
The whole point is Consumer Confidence in your product.

The threat of malware is the number one reason I hear when people talk about Android; and I hear it a lot.

Whether this is true or not, you have to take away the perception, lest it become fact in so many eyes.

By: Maria Fe Camaya O'Neill

Maria Fe Camaya O'Neill — Wed, 14 Dec 2011 03:27:00 +0000

I have never had a problem with any of the Andriod devices i’ve owned but still it’s nice to know that these sort of things can be delt with when necessary.

By: Lon Grove

Lon Grove — Wed, 14 Dec 2011 01:23:00 +0000

Agreed. Whole App categories such as P2P, file system management, or pretty much anything directly replacing or replicating a built-in iOS feature is forbidden by the Apple overlords in Cupertino

By: droidmage

droidmage — Wed, 14 Dec 2011 00:01:00 +0000

Your arguement doesnt hold water. Even if it was harder to write for they would still write there malware for the system with 90% market share over the one with ten. Its nit about fun and ease its about stealing money from people. When only a small number of users on any system are dumb enough to fall for your scam you as many people to see it as possible. It has nothing to do with whats easier.

By: David Hendrix

David Hendrix — Tue, 13 Dec 2011 23:41:00 +0000

If Apple was only concerned about security that would be great. Unfortunately they are acting more as a censor.

By: Coreyshaughnessy

Coreyshaughnessy — Tue, 13 Dec 2011 23:14:00 +0000

I choose to just be an intelligent person and not download bullshit apps. With a horoscope app and Twilight background, it’s clear these people are aiming for the right audience: idiots.

By: Rogernort

Rogernort — Tue, 13 Dec 2011 23:11:00 +0000

Your argument does not hold water. The fact is that it is much harder to write Malware for iOS, I am not saying you can’t do it just that it is harder to do. Remember coders are lazy, path of least resistance. Android has less resistance this easier to slip in Malware.
Android is great, and it is wonderful to have lots of flexibility, and malware may be the price an Android user is willing to pay.

By: Lon Grove

Lon Grove — Tue, 13 Dec 2011 23:11:00 +0000

But it’s ok for iOS apps like Tapfish to allow children to run-up $1500 bills on their parents i devices. Nope, no problem there.

By: PuckPuck

PuckPuck — Tue, 13 Dec 2011 23:10:00 +0000

You should check yourself before you post. Android is selling more today than iOS, but the installed base is still much larger for iOS. Yet there are no malware out there for iOS, and every week we hear about another batch of malware for Android. Of course you don’t hear about malware on the Amazon App Store, which is a walled garden, similar to the Apple iOS App Store. Go figure! Looks like the walled garden really works. Time for Google to start rethinking strategy, else they will end up being mocked just like Microsoft is for Windows.

By: Hpy

Hpy — Tue, 13 Dec 2011 22:51:00 +0000

Oh wow, there’s a great argument. Mac users have been hearing that for years from the Windows crowd.

No matter how you look at it, this disrupts the “free and open” main selling point Android users tout as their biggest draw; either you have to admit the devs have the power to limit your choices to ones they feel are safe (just as Apple has done from the beginning), or you have to admit that your app market is unsafe. Either way, score one for iOS.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Tue, 13 Dec 2011 22:50:00 +0000

No contract phone from Boost is sweet! I dont have to worry about this stuff.

By: that guy

that guy — Tue, 13 Dec 2011 22:33:00 +0000

There may be some Iphone lovers bashing Android over this issue. However, it makes since for phisher’s and any other malware creators to attack android in comparison to IOS users. If the installed base of users is as significantly higher on one OS versus another, the odds of the hacker getting someone to bite increases as well. Just like with windows and OSX, no one will write malicious code for an operating system not many people (or businesses) use.