On 16/12/2014 14:34, William Muriithi via skunkworks wrote:
> Gosh, this is interesting. I may be wrong but I honestly don't think you need anti virus on phones.
>
Considering the amount of sensitive data on a modern smart phone, why
not? Financial records, access to mail and other accounts would be of
interest to the baddies.
> That is, unless you have jail broken it and download stuff off the official market. And even on those market, just never install anything unless you seriously need it.
>
There have been notable problems with malicious apps on the official
Android and Windows Phone app stores.
> The whole mentality of anti virus is odd. Seriously, so you figure you have vulnerability and instead of fixing it, you have another software that also need update to cover for you? Why not just fix the venerability and get done with it?
>
Developers and manufacturers are rarely interested in patching flaws
especially in older versions of their products.
> Anti virus are rarely helpful because they have to be updated after a problem is known. That was may be necessary when people downloaded shit from untrusted source but not with today markets.
>
Modern anti virus rely on detecting malicious activity rather than on
signature based detection.
> Muriithi
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