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Re:Disable Your Antivirus Software (Except Microsoft's) by veeti on Wednesday May 24, 2017 @03:58AM (#14408262)
Utterly worthless, because apps on Android are sandboxed. Third-party AV can't do anything useful, and Play Services already provides built-in app scanning.
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Re:Disable Your Antivirus Software (Except Microsoft's) by icebraining on Wednesday May 24, 2017 @05:06AM (#14408582)
Devil's advocate: there are APK extractors (which work without root), so it's definitively possible for an AV to scan those files and report if there's something weird.
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Re:Disable Your Antivirus Software (Except Microsoft's) by yellowapple on Wednesday May 24, 2017 @09:55AM (#14410010)
An AV on a rooted phone would not have that restriction. Seeing as how rooting significantly increases the probability of malware infection on Android, such an AV would also be installable when it's needed the most.
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