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Symantec Identifies Android Trojans That Mutate With Every Download
angry tapir writes "Symantec researchers have identified a new premium-rate SMS Android Trojan that modifies its code every time it gets downloaded in order to bypass antivirus detection. This technique is known as server-side polymorphism and has already existed in the world of desktop malware for many years, but mobile malware creators have only now begun to adopt it."
If your running Anti-virus on a your phone, you've already lost the game...
And independent testing proves they're mostly pretty useless.
As with all things, only install apps from trusted sources, don't click accept on every pop-up box, and check the permissions requested are consistent with the functionality of the app. The same as with any other application on any other OS.
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Sounds like Symantec's usual tactics of - create a terrible virus, tell everyone how bad it is, and only their products can protect you. This has been done before to try and sell AV. With Microsoft now having it's free Security Essentials, AV companies are getting desperate!
-- By all means let's be open-minded, but not so open-minded that our brains drop out.
Has anyone, anywhere ever intentionally used a "premium" SMS service?
Telecoms obviously need a regulatory smackdown requiring them not to act as payment processors.