The alleged Trojan flood in Android
According to Kaspersky, the number of the second quarter newfound Android pests tripled and now stands at around 15,000 copies alarming. Competitor F-Secure sees, however, only a moderate increase of nearly 10 percent to about 40 new Android malware. The difference is easy to explain and has quite method.
Kaspersky is one that is - like most anti-virus companies - so-called Unique samples. Technically means that at the entrance of a new pest a hash value is generated by the program. Is this digital fingerprinting not been registered in the database, we have registered a new unique sample. Practically generates already replacing one "A" code "a" in the program a "new" Trojans - even if the function of the malicious program absolutely nothing has changed. Sun arrived in the 2nd Quarter of 2012, all 14,923 new Android Trojan in Kaspersky malware statistics. This counting is indeed risk assessment virtually worthless, but is still widespread, for various reasons, their easy conversion is just one of them.
F-Secure for some time however, chooses the more sophisticated approach and analyzes the pests for its statistics, such as the Mobile Threat Report detail. Whose numbers for malware distribution based on malware families or variants and thus provide a real threat again much better than the inflated Unique samples values. So F-Secure has discovered in the period April to June, 40 new variants of malware, which is an entirely realistic value. Both AV vendors are, however, agree that Android is the preferred mobile platform for pests.
Kaspersky is one that is - like most anti-virus companies - so-called Unique samples. Technically means that at the entrance of a new pest a hash value is generated by the program. Is this digital fingerprinting not been registered in the database, we have registered a new unique sample. Practically generates already replacing one "A" code "a" in the program a "new" Trojans - even if the function of the malicious program absolutely nothing has changed. Sun arrived in the 2nd Quarter of 2012, all 14,923 new Android Trojan in Kaspersky malware statistics. This counting is indeed risk assessment virtually worthless, but is still widespread, for various reasons, their easy conversion is just one of them.
F-Secure for some time however, chooses the more sophisticated approach and analyzes the pests for its statistics, such as the Mobile Threat Report detail. Whose numbers for malware distribution based on malware families or variants and thus provide a real threat again much better than the inflated Unique samples values. So F-Secure has discovered in the period April to June, 40 new variants of malware, which is an entirely realistic value. Both AV vendors are, however, agree that Android is the preferred mobile platform for pests.
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