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Windows Phone Store Increasingly Targeted With Fake Mobile Apps

Posted by Soulskill on Tuesday October 6, 2015 @04:17PM from the low-hanging-fruit dept.

An anonymous reader writes: A post by security company Avast says not only are a large amount of fake apps available from the third-party marketplace of the Windows Phone Store, but they also remain available for quite a while despite negative comments and other flags from end-users. Avast speculates that improved security and auditing procedures at rival stores such as Google Play account for the increasing attention that fake app-publishers are giving to the Windows phone app market.

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Re: Haven't Windows Phone users learned by now? by Karlt1 · 2015-10-07 00:58 · Score: 1, Troll

What Microsoft technology? IOS works just as well with Exchange via ActiveSync.
On an unrelated note, I find it ridiculous that while the standard Mail program in the Mac has built in Exchange support, Windows doesn't.