Google bought VirusTotal Not long ago. We were all very clear that one of the intentions of the American company was to use it to fight one of the biggest scourges of Android, malware applications. There are many tips that prevent us from installing malicious software and that give us guidelines to be safe, but the truth is that most of us install applications without even looking at the permissions that it requests. The new one Google Play Store it could solve all these problems.
And it is that, our colleagues from Android Police have taken the trouble, as they usually do, to take the new APK file from the application store, and disassemble it, to see what news it brings with respect to the previous version, finding something really interesting. Basically, they have been taken with lines of text that let us think that Google is going to incorporate a malicious application scanner.
The lines of text are possible answers that the application could give us at a certain moment, and that is why we think we know what Google has introduced in the new version of its store. What they have found is the following:
Check App
“Allow Google to check all apps installed to this device for harmful behavior?
To learn more, go to Settings> Security. »
Installing this app may harm your device
Installation has been blocked
Google recommends that you do not install this app.
To protect you, Google has blocked the installation of this app.
App name: "% s"
I understand that this app may be dangerous.
Check apps?
For those of you who do not handle the code or English, we simplify it a little. On the one hand we have Check App, which would refer to the dangerous application scanning system. The rest of the sentences make us think that the system will be able to scan the applications that we already have installed if we allow it, in such a way that it can detect what we have on the mobile that could affect it and the use of it on our part .
On the other hand, it also seems to indicate that it will be able to recognize which applications that we are going to install may be harmful, in such a way that it warns us that its recommendation not to install it, or that it tells us that it has directly blocked it. Another line of text tells us that we can ignore Google's recommendations, verify that we understand that the application can be dangerous and that we still want to install it on our Android smartphones or tablet. The last confirmation that this system would exist are the new images, which would represent the symbols shown, of shield and advertisements, which would be displayed alongside the quoted messages.
Without a doubt, it would be a new function that would benefit many, the vast majority of us who tend to install applications without reviewing what permissions we are granting them and without considering that they can be really harmful to us, taking actions without our consent that we would never want them to take. finished. It will be necessary to see when these tools are activated in Google Play Store.
Known thanks to the file shredded by Android Police.
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