A test cunducted by Xuxian Jiang, a professor of computer science at North Carolina State University, reveals that the effectiveness of Google's new malware scanner for Android is very poor. Google'... Android 4.2 malware scanner catches just 20 percent of threats
Still haven't ever got mailware from any app on the market to date. Reading the reviews before downloading normally give a good indication on the validity of it.
^ This. I work IN this business, and the only people I've ever seen with a virus on their phone are the dip****s that blindly click anything... and guess what? Their computers are in the exact same state - virus/malware ridden. It's not that there aren't lots of viruses out there, the problem actually exists between the touchscreen and the chair. Psychlone