Android finds latest malware threatens user privacy

Source: Internet
Author: User
Keywords Malicious programs
&http://www.aliyun.com/zixun/aggregation/37954.html ">nbsp; Security company Symantec recently reported that a new malicious program found on the Android platform to hijack the device by posing as antivirus software, the owners need to pay a certain fee to the criminal to normal use.      This scam application first appeared on the Windows platform, recently began to spread to the mobile platform, these malicious programs tend to seize the consumer to seek security mentality, misleading consumers to delete some false or non-existent Trojan malicious programs, and then control the entire device to threaten the machine master. If the user chooses not to pay, the application will periodically remind them that they have been "infected" and that the device will end up crashing. In addition, the application will eventually be in the consumer's private privacy as a threat, consumers only pay the $ $ to allow equipment to operate normally. These applications are often not downloaded through the Google Play online mall, but are installed through a third party, without regulatory regulation making it a hotbed of Android's malicious programs.
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