Released: February 03, 2012
Google reveals Android malware ‘Bouncer,’ scans all apps
Source: Gregg Keizer, Computerworld
Computerworld - Google yesterday unveiled an automated system that scans Android apps for potential malware or unauthorized behavior, a move critics have
long called the company to make.
The scanning service, appropriately codenamed “Bouncer,” has been in action “a number of months,” said Hiroshi Lockheimer, the vice president of engineering
for Android, in an interview Thursday. “The interesting thing is that no one really noticed. It didn’t disrupt the end user’s experience [in the Android
Market] or disrupt the developers. They didn’t have to think about it at all.”
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