Beware Malware Attack on Your Android

In principle, the operating system is man-made and man-made is nothing perfect. This makes the operating system always has a weakness that can be attacked. If we talk in terms of security, there is operating system because it often becomes target of virus attacks then become victims of negative campaigns, with a variety of labels: not safe, many security holes, just for the newbie, and so on.

Typically, the accused party is positioning itself as the operating system is "safe" with a variety of arguments, as supported by the community, have a layered defense, programmed to think of security factors, and so on.

The real question is not about whether an operating system is safe or not, but whether the operating system is quite interesting to be attacked or not. If there is one operating system with a market share of more than 70%, very difficult to get people not attracted to dissect and make malware to attack the operating system.

This assumption can be demonstrated on Microsoft Windows as PCs operating system is the target of virus. In fact, the Windows Mobile operating system from Microsoft is not attractive to malware makers.

In smartphones, ruler of the largest market share is the green robot - Android which is actually uses the Linux kernel. This operating system is phenomenal because just in a few years can master world's largest market share smartphone and installed on 200 million devices per November 2011.

A very large market share by Android is inviting the criminals who want to get profits by creating malware. Today, it can be said that Android is a smartphone operating system that is the most sexy and become the number one target of malware makers.