Google’s post recapping Play Store and Android protections in 2024 is live, while highlighting new Play Protect features, like during calls.

Google’s post recapping Play Store and Android protections in 2024 is live, while highlighting new Play Protect features, like during calls.

  • Onomatopoeia@lemmy.cafeEnglish
    191·
    1 day ago

    No, it doesn’t, or we wouldn’t have all the reports of malware on phones.

    It simply isn’t possible for all those reports to be only from the tiny fraction of people who sideload.

    Play protect has been around for what, ten years now, the play store has tons of malicious apps, yet people still get malware.

    As a final thought, why is protection from malicious apps from the play store being performed on the phone instead of in the store?

    • CrayonRosary@lemmy.worldEnglish
      6·
      19 hours ago

      why is protection from malicious apps from the play store being performed on the phone instead of in the store?

      Because it’s behavior-based. You can’t tell how software will behave until you run it. And running it means having real human interactions with the software and the environment on your phone. It’s literally impossible to predict what software will do just by reading the code. It’s the Halting Problem. I’m no expert though, and I’m kind of assuming.

      And I’m sure that some exploits are detected in the source code by the Play Store when they’re done naively and obiviously.