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One of the biggest disadvantages of Android is its low level of security. Outdated versions, a very cursory verification of applications coming into the store Google Play and inattention users operating at random make use of Android can be dangerous. Google decided to at least partially improve the situation and will try to protect our smartphones and tablets from various kinds of viruses.

Company of Mountain View announced yesterday, that has taken serious steps to protect its users against malicious software. All thanks to Verify Apps service, which was introduced into the system along with Android 4.2 and checked the harmfulness of applications coming from third-party stores as well as those installed by yourself.

In addition to her Google had a system codenamed Bouncer, which analyzed each application thrown into Google Play. Both tools do not work the best and they can be easily outwit. One way to do this was to put the safe application in the store and after gaining its popularity to update its user with malicious elements.

Google decided to change it once and for all and extended service operation Verify Apps. From now on she will also check the harmfulness of applications from Google Play and regularly monitor the machine looking for malicious programs of already installed applications. This system will be able to block malicious applications and warn the user about them.

pleasant surprise is that the option will be added not only to smartphones equipped with the latest Android 4.4 KitKat, but to all devices with Android 2.3 or later with access to Google Play. This option can be found in the security settings and it will be unlocked by default on all smartphones and tablets with Android.

Google engineers claim that most users will not even notice improvements Apps Verify option, because the number of malicious applications on Google Play, and hence also the number of users going into not, is very small. Specifically, 0.18% install applications made last year was potentially dangerous.

Yes, this is a small percentage, but given that the vast majority of smartphones around the world are equipped with the Android system, it turns out, that each week of the dangers of applications struggling to many thousands of users, among which we can find, and we did.

I appreciate very much the attitude of Google, which probably noticed the biggest drawback of Android, which is susceptible to all kinds of attacks and dangers. If it were not alone I would think seriously about the Connecting with Windows Phone’a at this year’s upcoming Nexus with pure Android.

I change Google’s approach to security makes more and more take such a possibility into account . However, the final decision will wait for the first test this possibility, because of his usual skepticism I am afraid that the solution Google can not work like this describes. But it will try to check yourself soon.

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