Before i have the same question as Sveta, but after some study for current antivirus tool on Market, I observed that it is still able to scan or detect suspicious app/events to some extend, for instance: once a package was installed, scan its contents and warn the owner if necessary. (/data/app is world-readable) Though this may not be as powerful as PC-counterpart, it still provides some protection to users. FYI.
Aaron. 2010/3/25 Dianne Hackborn <[email protected]>: > Android does not support anti-virus applications, since to operate they > would need to escape their application sandbox. (Not even the system > process has permission to get to other application's data.) > If someone is trying to sell you an anti-virus application, be very > suspicious. :) > > On Wed, Mar 24, 2010 at 3:12 AM, Sveta <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> Hello all, >> >> recently I was trying out Android's third party antivirus >> application. I have got several question a about that. >> Does someone know in which manner such an application could be >> designed? More precisely, I am interested in how actually it can check >> data of other apps installed on the device (since app data are not >> accessible from other applications, does it need to have root access >> or smth like this?) or it just check the system settings? >> >> >> thank you in advance, >> >> >> Sveta >> >> To unsubscribe from this group, send email to >> android-security-discuss+unsubscribegooglegroups.com or reply to this email >> with the words "REMOVE ME" as the subject. > > > > -- > Dianne Hackborn > Android framework engineer > [email protected] > > Note: please don't send private questions to me, as I don't have time to > provide private support, and so won't reply to such e-mails. All such > questions should be posted on public forums, where I and others can see and > answer them. > > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > android-security-discuss+unsubscribegooglegroups.com or reply to this email > with the words "REMOVE ME" as the subject. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to android-security-discuss+unsubscribegooglegroups.com or reply to this email with the words "REMOVE ME" as the subject.
