{"id":24676,"date":"2019-03-21T15:51:15","date_gmt":"2019-03-21T19:51:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/?p=24676"},"modified":"2019-07-30T09:50:31","modified_gmt":"2019-07-30T13:50:31","slug":"do-nothing-antivirus-apps","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2019\/03\/21\/do-nothing-antivirus-apps\/","title":{"rendered":"Do-nothing “Antivirus” Apps"},"content":{"rendered":"

Catalin Cimpanu<\/a> (via John Gruber<\/a>):<\/p>\n

An organization specialized in testing antivirus products concluded in a report published this week that roughly two-thirds of all Android antivirus apps are a sham and don’t work as advertised.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n

Tim Schmitz<\/a>:<\/p>\n

\n

The fact that this stuff exists on the iOS and Mac App Stores really makes you wonder what the point of app review is anyway.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n

I don’t like the idea of Apple deciding—which it already does to a certain extent—whether an app is “useful,” but clearly one role of a trusted store should be to prevent deception.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Catalin Cimpanu (via John Gruber): An organization specialized in testing antivirus products concluded in a report published this week that roughly two-thirds of all Android antivirus apps are a sham and don’t work as advertised. Tim Schmitz: The fact that this stuff exists on the iOS and Mac App Stores really makes you wonder what […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"apple_news_api_created_at":"2019-03-21T19:51:17Z","apple_news_api_id":"66034b7c-656e-4a5c-995d-7feeca1b8171","apple_news_api_modified_at":"2019-03-21T19:51:19Z","apple_news_api_revision":"AAAAAAAAAAD\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/w==","apple_news_api_share_url":"https:\/\/apple.news\/AZgNLfGVuSlyZXX_uyhuBcQ","apple_news_coverimage":0,"apple_news_coverimage_caption":"","apple_news_is_hidden":false,"apple_news_is_paid":false,"apple_news_is_preview":false,"apple_news_is_sponsored":false,"apple_news_maturity_rating":"","apple_news_metadata":"\"\"","apple_news_pullquote":"","apple_news_pullquote_position":"","apple_news_slug":"","apple_news_sections":"\"\"","apple_news_suppress_video_url":false,"apple_news_use_image_component":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[248,249,1846,91,31,1610,26,30,32,39,1609,504],"class_list":["post-24676","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-technology","tag-android","tag-androidapp","tag-app-review","tag-appstore","tag-ios","tag-ios-12","tag-iosapp","tag-mac","tag-macapp","tag-macappstore","tag-macos-10-14","tag-malware"],"apple_news_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24676","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=24676"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24676\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24677,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24676\/revisions\/24677"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24676"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24676"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24676"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}