Promote thousands of malicious software 360 Application market security issues are worrying

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Suction and fraud software is the mobile phone application market two major cancer, but also the user of mobile applications most hated the two major problems, 360 application market has been found to have thousands of suction software in the promotion.

Before the Spring Festival, 百360 has launched a reward for tens of millions of activities, a reward to find 360 application market in the suction software, and activities began less than 1 days, there are security engineers on its micro-blog Exposure 100 360 market suction software, including a variety of well-known games, tools and other software.

The security engineer said in Weibo: "When you see 360 of thousands of malicious software, the brothers are crazy, and 360 of the market to find thousands of malicious software is very easy." And said the 360 move was to make them rich. And Weibo comments, some netizens joked to "programmers in 360 to help the next second change tyrants story." The microblog quickly became a popular joke on the internet.

Because of the 360 market malicious suction software too much, 360 have to quietly stop the activity. Then netizens have reported hundreds of 360 marketing software list, including the alloy warheads 2, gold Miners 2013 (automatic download), professional drawing tools and Chinese chess and many popular software.

From the Netizen's report can be seen, from the 360 application download to the malicious software will steal the deduction of SMS, Luantan ads, resulting in loss of telephone costs. As the domestic large-scale mobile phone application store, its application security audit has been criticized by the industry, before there are a large number of 360 applications exist "suction software" media coverage.

Before the news media also reported on the 360 market to promote the issue of suction software, according to reports, 2013 mobile phone virus exploded growth, a year increased by more than five times times, the total number of mobile phone virus amounted to 700,000 cases. The report sharply pointed out that "mobile phone virus is the source of the mobile App Store", the download channel is not safe to become a mobile phone security short board.

To Samsung S4 user Feedback 360 "S4 Dynamic wallpaper suction fee application" as an example, according to media reports, the victim of Miss Li in 360 application search Samsung S4 Wallpaper, who knows but download to "suction software", will secretly download promotional software, consuming a lot of traffic, resulting in the loss of the phone bill, There is no software risk hint on the 360 application page.

Industry experts said that 360 as one of the domestic large-scale application distribution market, only for the pursuit of commercial interests, not strict application security audit, no ability to control the application of security issues, will seriously threaten the property and data security of mobile phone users. Frequent "suction fee application" is the performance of the lack of safety examination ability.

The existence of security problems has also made many application developers dissatisfied: 3,601 Taste the pursuit of commercial interests, the security software protection fee model applied to the distribution market, mercenary, to promote the existence of security problems of the software, seriously affected the normal software promotion, which is typical of the bad currency to expel good currency.

Data authoritative agency of the 2013 domestic application store's user coverage statistics line shows that Baidu July 2013 acquisition 91, "Baidu Department" should increase the user coverage, 360 mobile phone assistants have slipped.

Eric's data again shows that a lack of respect for the interests of users, no security ability of the application market, can not win users, will eventually lose the trust of the market.