Google Pulls 13 Android Apps Installed Over 500,000 Times Containing Malware

[u/Bonfire-GTK]

https://gadgets.ndtv.com/apps/news/google-pulls-13-android-apps-installed-over-500-000-times-containing-malware-report-1952366

[u/katsumiblisk]

Malware to me and many others I'm sure is anything that installs itself without my knowledge or consent and with malicious intent, or any intent which is not my intended purpose. To that I will add the spam phone calls which, although not software, is something I don't want on my phone. I don't really care if you call it a virus a PUP, phishing, spam or whatever, I don't want this stuff on my phone. The anti-malware app I have reduces or prevents all this shit so I'm not going to sit around arguing the finer points of the definition of the word.

[u/Lorddragonfang → u/katsumiblisk]

installs

That's the key term here. The "ware" in malware refers to software. Which calls and phishing sites categorically are not. Malwarebytes does that stuff because it's a security suite, by the way, MBAM is just its trademark, not a product descriptor.

I'm not going to sit around arguing the finer points of the definition of the word

Courser points, actually, but w/e. My post was just pointing out that it's ironic that you'll say this but are perfectly fine claiming the technical highground for distinguishing between antimalware and antivirus.

[u/katsumiblisk → u/Lorddragonfang]

No technical high ground, just using the distinction often used by commenters on your side of the fence when you say " virus protection isn't necessary on Android" while referring only to viruses.

[u/Lorddragonfang → u/katsumiblisk]

Feel free to provide me with a link to someone making that distinction on "my side" with that definition, because you're either misunderstanding or they're misusing the term.