Computer viruses, and generally malicious software or malware, evolve faster than the security tools designed to combat them. Personal computers have faced this reality for over three decades, and now that smartphones and tablets are growing exponentially, threats have spread to the mobile field.
When the two incumbent mobile environments are compared, Android and Apple’s iOS, the former has been more vulnerable, especially Apple’s grip on publishing apps. But the determining factor in the rise of mobile viruses has to do with the users, who download apps from unofficial sites other than Google Play the Apple App Store.
How does the malware on mobile? In most cases I undercover from a seemingly innocent application and uses the permissions granted to the application to send pictures and other information to an external server without the user noticing.
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Even for the iPhone, with a very low attack rate, if an application gets permission to use the user’s location, may also have access to the photos, even if it has not been expressly authorized.
But users who unlock their iPhone to install software from unauthorized sites are contributing to leave a back door open to malware.
In addition to spyware, in markets like the United States, much of the mobile malware, allow shipments of premium SMS messages through intermediaries who take a percentage, or download files without authorization. The source of these threats is located on servers of third parties, other than the official store.
How to protect
All providers of security products are offering apps to smartphones and tablets in addition to constantly monitoring the activity of mobile applications They check at the time the user starts an installation. For example, in the recent launch of its new range of security software, Venezuela Panda Security offers a free month of your Android system for mobile and annual payment in bolivars.
The independent laboratory AV Test held in June passed a thorough study of 36 security applications for Android. Throughout the test, all applications had to scan 3 times the updated reference set consisting of AV-TEST 2300 malware and recognize applications and malicious attacks.
The applications with the highest level of protection are those of AhnLab, Antiy, Avira, Bitdefender, Cheetah Mobile (three versions), G Data, Kaspersky, McAfee, Qihoo, Symantec, Trend Micro and TrustGo. Some are free and some for sale, although the latter can be tested for a period of between two weeks and one month.
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