“In the past we and others found malicious apps, non-working apps, so it is not really a surprise to find some bogus AV apps as well,” says Peter Stelzhammer, COO of AV-Comparatives. The remainder either failed to meet that benchmark, frequently mistook benign apps for malware, or have been pulled from the Play Store altogether. In a survey of 250 antivirus apps found in the Google Play Store, only 80 demonstrated basic competence at their jobs by detecting 30 percent or more of the 2,000 malicious apps AV-Comparatives threw at them. That’s the finding of newly published research from AV-Comparatives, a European company that, as its name suggests, tests antivirus products. On Android, that problem is compounded by dozens of apps that aren’t just ineffective-they’re outright phony. You’re basically inviting all-seeing, all-knowing software onto your device, trusting that it’ll keep the bad guys out and not abuse its own access in the process.
The world of antivirus is already fraught.
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