Android Market Focus, cottage application instant Change Genuine

The rich application of Android phone brings more choices and demands to users, but it also causes the application of chaos and straggly. Recently, Cheetahmobile released the first half of the 2014 security report, the report shows that in the third-party application market, about 9% of the Android application is malicious, the number is 2013 2.5 times times, 2012 20 multiple. In the face of the cohabitation of Android application market, how can users have a pair of eyes to identify the pros and cons of the application?

Take precautions! Android Market teaches you to recognize "cottage applications"

Shanzhai apps can trick users into downloading, the main trick is to use people's weaknesses, such as counterfeit pay software, but the banner of free download to attract users fooled. Of course, here are just a fake app one of the consumer traps, but also the most straightforward trick.

In addition to free, Shanzhai apps also include the use of erotic, cracked ... and other topics to attract user interest, and then download the installation. Since it is called a cottage, of course, these Shanzhai app will certainly have to copy or camouflage objects, relatively low level is probably using a very high similarity of the icon, name and screenshot to weeding. A higher level, it is even the content of the similarity is quite high. The most difficult thing to distinguish the software profile of this cottage app is exactly the same as the official version, without making any changes, of course the icon is the same, so the original moved to the application market, if the user does not pay attention, can really when genuine application to mobile phone use. This cottage app can be said to be the easiest to allow users to be fooled, but also the most users abhor the application of "cancer." Unscrupulous developers do so in the hope that users can be fooled, accidentally downloaded to the Cottage app, so as to earn a profit, and even in the app hidden malicious program, so that users become hackers to steal money, or even remotely remote control, call high pay phone or junk SMS victims.

In addition to the surface camouflage, some malicious developers in the promotion of the Cottage app is also good at using the family like a taste of the psychological, through the use of hot words (such as "IPhone", "ios style", etc.) to render their own cottage applications, attract eyeballs, so as to induce users to achieve a good download effect.

Pay more attention to love machine health, "Cottage application" harm early found

Sometimes the fake app's surface camouflage is too clever, the user even carefully compare scrutiny, also not necessarily can guess to their true identity. But it does not matter, we can also through the use of love machine monitoring to find all kinds of clues to the cottage:

1, the network traffic at any time monitoring

Usually malicious cottage app is not through the ads to try to let the user delayed and profit, is the use of backdoor program transmission data, but also through remote control of the user's mobile phone, secretly sent a deduction fee information to create a user mobile phone calls "big bloodletting." At this time we can use the Android system built in the flow monitoring function to see the current mobile phone traffic usage, to see if there are abnormal excess traffic generated.

2, pay attention to the abnormal consumption of electricity.

As mentioned above, malicious programs typically transmit large amounts of data in a "secret" way, which in turn can lead to significant consumption of electricity, which is also a clue to our malicious program.

What about Ei? Android Market gives you a weapon!

In fact, "Cottage application" is not unique in China, in Google Play, the top 100 applications of 60% in various forms of piracy. In response to the growing proliferation of mobile phone security threats, the domestic largest application mall Android Market early for users to consider thoughtful, as long as the "eyes" sweeping sweep of mobile phones, easy to eliminate the cottage application is no longer a problem. As long as users slide the left side of the bar, point open the Eyes function, Android Market will automatically scan users of all mobile applications, if the scan to the cottage application, monkey Brother's "eyes" will pull it out, and prompts you to uninstall it. At the same time, you can also share this function to the friends around, let them also a good eyes, a trick to eliminate the cottage.