Reviews - Built-in malware scanner for Android on the way?

[HEXUS]

New Google Play APK source code reveals checking and warning prompts.

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[cameronlite]

Say goodbye to quite a few clock cycles. It's Windows all over again.

[crossy]

Say goodbye to quite a few clock cycles. It's Windows all over again.

That's a bit "doom and gloom" isn't it? After all there's nothing to insist that you put anti-malware s/w on. After all, some folks operate Windows in that manner and seem to get on okay. Personally though, I'm lazy, so I'm happy to have McAfee to blame.

Second thing, like the writer, I'm running Android anti-malware (AVG paid in my case) and most of the time it's invisible. Even on my donkeys old single core SE X10, (on the Galaxy S3 that replaced the X10 I never even notice it).

Personally speaking, anything Google want to do to make it easier for a user to apply security controls suits me.