Beware of the Cottage app

"I avoided the Yue Yue, distinguish the nutrition line, can accurately recognize Cong, pulse robbery, Wang Lao Gu, but can not see the app." Can you do that? "In recent days, the Borrie of this cottage app has been forwarded by a lot of people commenting on it, and even with more than 34 million fans, Kai-Fu Lee forwarded the tweet and commented," Beware of cottage app! "

What is the difference between a fake app and a genuine one? really do not see do not know, a look at the startled.

"Taobao's official client, logo concise atmosphere, by the company's standard Orange rounded square, the middle of the white ' Amoy ' word composition." Chinese name only ' Taobao ' word. "This is Taobao official statement Taobao client, but only by this description you can find the genuine Taobao app?"

Change font for background, Shanzhai app streets

To the current application in the shopping app is more commonly used by Alibaba development of "Taobao" as an example, the reporter in the application, mobile phone China and other websites of mobile application download Search "Taobao", the results show that the first page, 9 app 5 are Shanzhai version.

In one of the Shanzhai Taobao app comment has a netizen message "is false", but the app's application information shows that it has been downloaded 12,303 times.

It's not so easy to discern these shanzhai apps. Compared with the genuine, some Shanzhai version of the original orange was changed to orange, in addition to chromatic aberration, the client logo details exactly the same; some Shanzhai version just put the logo on the "Amoy" word changed a font ... If you do not know in advance what the original Taobao app looks like, blunt eye a look is easy to be fooled.

Not only Taobao, the gun is really a lot. Reporter in several commonly used software download site found when, barley ticket, beautiful said, and even ICBC's mobile phone clients have a cottage version. Netizen "Micro Bo with the city will be" direct call, "the bank app unexpectedly all have cottage ... This is too dangerous, let's check your cell phone now. ”

The reporter searched the Bank app Cottage version, and genuine made a comparison, the cottage and genuine design is quite atmosphere, like a pair of twins. "Mobile phone client technology is not very difficult, a little bit of experience programmers can do, download platform is open, and now the punishment for the cottage is very small." "A well-known portal of senior programmers blunt, illegal cost is not high indeed let the cottage app more and more rampant."

Fake app leaks your privacy

Taobao today found that there are former students concerned about me, so strange, I Taobao public information on only a registered name AH. "The Netizen" WERHJF in the application comment to say, read the comments of other netizens to know that the original is because of accidentally downloaded a cottage app in mischief, as long as the installation of this program will be linked to the address book and mobile phone number, find the corresponding personal information, "feel personal information security violations." ”

Privacy theft is one of the main security threats faced by mobile users. Not long ago, the 360 Internet Security Center released a "2012 China Mobile phone security status report," the report shows that 28% of malicious software can be infected with the phone, the backstage collection of users of SMS, call, location and other information, networking or through the message outside, directly lead to the user's key privacy leaks. Shanzhai apps are clearly such malware.

"2012 China Mobile phone security status report" shows that the mobile phone security situation is still deteriorating, 2012 new mobile phone malware sample 174,977, 1907% year-on-year Increase in 2011.

In order to filter these Shanzhai apps, some mobile phone users will install applications that filter or intercept the junk software, but these security software are sometimes targeted. For example, Weibo netizens respond to their own Android phone found suspected Jinshan mobile phone poison PA pop-up advertising messages, and Jinshan mobile phone poison PA team in the analysis of these malicious advertising program found that the malicious advertising author tampered with an advertising plug-in, in the software written "mobile phone poison PA + for you to recommend" To counterfeit Kingsoft mobile phone poison PA in the Android Phone notification bar pop-up ads.

"For malicious advertisers to forge Kingsoft mobile phone poison pa in the Notice bar pop-up ads in the Android phone, we can not find the responsible person, may be small workshops, so can not conduct judicial proceedings." Jinshan Software related to the responsible person told reporters, although there has not been found in the cottage (counterfeit) Kingsoft application software, but the cottage app is really hard to defend, and genuine developers difficult rights.

Avoid "Li Ghost", the best download from the official website

More than 70% of the new malware samples in the 2012 China Mobile phone Security report are focused on the Android platform. In fact, from the experience of the reporter, the Apple platform is not so safe. In Apple's application software search "Taobao", the same will be found dressed as "Taobao" look like the Shanzhai goods.

"These Shanzhai versions are not to be prevented, we will unite the relevant departments to do some supervision, but more importantly, consumers should know how to discriminate and avoid being fooled." "In addition to identifying the client's identity, the consumer downloads the app," says Ali. Also note: One is to observe the application of the download, usually Taobao official client downloads are relatively large, if the download amount of small applications, please choose carefully; the second is to download the client, you can browse the user's comments, To identify whether it is an official application.

There is another way, after downloading app, do not busy to use, click to enter the client, select the menu bar in the "Help"-"About Us", you will generally see the definition of the client, if the official development of the "copyright notice" will specify the software "development by XXXX" and other information.

Shanzhai apps are like phishing websites and fraudulent text messages, and you can't just identify the Shanzhai versions we've listed, because software developers may change the app icon in the future, so make sure your app is downloaded from the website and is relatively secure.