This won’t exactly be a big reveal to some of you, but a new study of Android antivirus apps in the Google Play store is out with some predictably disheartening results. According to AV-Comparatives, an Austrian antivirus testing organization, most of the antivirus apps in the store don’t really protect you from much of anything, and aren’t worth the space they’ll take up on your phone.
Less than 1 in 10 apps defended against all 2,000 malware samples the testing lab threw at them, according to a press release from the lab. Moreover, more than two-thirds of the apps didn’t even hit a block rate of 30%.
Trending Right Now:
Most Android antivirus apps barely offer any protection at all originally appeared on BGR.com on Wed, 13 Mar 2019 at 20:07:23 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
Read more here:: Boy Genius Report