> 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)
Aren't the data of an application stored in /data/data/package_name and /data/app simply contains app packages with extension .apk, or I misunderstood something?And what output actually package scanning gives (malicious parts of codes, suspicious settings)? Sveta On Mar 24, 12:12 pm, Sveta <[email protected]> wrote: > Hello all, > > recently I was trying out Android's third partyantivirus > 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.
