Many Security Apps on Google Play Inefficient, Fake: Study

By Eduard Kovacs on March 14, 2019

Antivirus testing firm AV-Comparatives has analyzed 250 security applications for Android offered on Google Play and found that many of them either fail to detect threats or they are simply fake.

The applications reviewed by AV-Comparatives were tested against 2,000 malicious and 100 clean APKs, totaling over 500,000 test runs. Unsurprisingly, the tests showed that the products of reputable security firms such as Avast, Bitdefender, ESET, F-Secure, G-Data, Kaspersky, McAfee, Sophos, Symantec, Tencent, Trend Micro and Trustwave can detect all malware.

Overall, 70 products blocked over 80% of the malware samples and 80 products blocked over 30% with no false positives -- AV-Comparatives considers antiviruses that block less than 30% as being ineffective or unsafe.

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