As we told you last Wednesday, Google had to get 21 malicious applications from Android Market, and the promise by the company of the search engine in leave arranged things.
Weekend updated its official blog to report on what happened, also introduce measures that are being taken with regard to the application, that affect the devices sharing information initially thereof (IMEI, identifiers, version Android). But that does not guarantee that a future can get some more users.
The steps followed by Google are the following:
* Remove from Android Market applications, suspend the accounts of the developers and put on notice to the appropriate police department.
* An update on Android Market to affected devices. If a user has an affected device will receive an email within 72 hours of publication of the notice and a notice on the phone (Saturday): "Android Market Security Tool March 2011".
More than anything is a warning that an action to take, as the update will take place automatically on the phone, as well as notify us the deleted applications. Within 24 hours you will receive a second email informing that the situation is fixed.
* Google is taking steps to prevent the malicious software in the future, so that promise us that from now on it will be much more complicated that happens again.
As interesting and informative information, vulnerability to these applications did not affect terminals with Android 2.2.2 or higher. It is estimated that 260,000 terminals have been hit with malicious applications
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