The device is not reset to factory settings this can be done, however, by sending the command #wipe. This command deletes personal data from the device this will only work if the command is sent from a trusted number. This may be more expensive for the sender, and is not necessary from a technical point of view, as both texts together are well within the maximum length permitted for individual text messages. These two pieces of information are sent as two separate text messages. The sender’s phone will receive in reply the device’s current co-ordinates and a direct link to Google Maps. This command determines the smartphone’s location. This might be due to the increasingly aggressive detection by app reputation for apps that are not on Google Play, but maybe also because many of the participants in our test are leading mobile security vendors with good protection rates. The chart below shows, that the protection rates against real Android malware are very high. We only counted the false-positives with apps that were available on the Google Play Store.

The categorization of apps from (mainly Asian) third-party stores into “clean apps never to be detected” and “clean/grey apps which are OK to detect” was arguably acceptable and therefore those cases were not used (so far there is no clear distinction used across the industry, although e.g. We did this to allow the products to detect the malware using real-time protection.Ī false-positives test was also carried out, using apps from the Google Play Store and third-party app stores. After this, every undetected app was installed manually. So-called “potentially unwanted applications” were not included. The test set consisted exclusively of. We used 2,365 malicious applications, to create a representative test set. The malware used in the test was collected by us in the last few weeks before the test. The test was conducted with an active Internet connection on genuine Android smartphones (no emulators were used). The security products were updated and tested on the 13 th July 2015. The test was carried out in July and August 2015 on an LG Nexus 5 smartphone running Android 5.1.1. This report contains details of products by leading manufacturers that agreed to have their products tested.

This year, we have once again tested security products for mobile phones running Google’s Android OS.

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