It seems the answer to that is when Google says it isn’t. From what I gather the software virus checking company, Symantec claimed that it discovered malicious Android apps.  However Google seemingly refuted this claim. This little tussle resulted in a win for Google, with Symantec backing off.  However, the company did say that while [...]

I recently heard that Google decided to offer visitors to its Android app store a new mechanism to track for malware before downloading anything to mobile devices.  It’s called Bouncer and it apparently scans the whole of the store. On the surface this sounds like a great idea, but some experts are a bit wary. [...]