Android has built-in antivirus

The updated Play Store application, designed to work with the Android application store, will now serve as antivirus. Specialists have found in it the components that carry out antivirus scanning of a smartphone, blocking downloads of suspicious applications and deleting malicious applications already installed on the smartphone.

According to statistics, more than half of smartphone users are unaware of the existing threats to their security, and only a third of users install special applications to protect smartphones from malicious software. Despite the fact that almost any owner of a smartphone with Android OS can download antivirus for free , this business is very small, and the decision of developers to integrate antivirus into the Play Store will not harm the creators of smartphone protection software. At the same time, it will help fight the many dangers that have been talked about a lot lately. The accusations of the Android OS vulnerability were heard even from the FBI, who noted several malicious programs and accused developers of poorly protecting the operating system. Users of Android smartphones in India and China, where third-party OS application stores are popular, are particularly at risk.

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