Secure Application Sources – AndroidMag

Malicious applications pose a relatively high security risk. In the most innocuous case, these applications collect "only" their personal data in order to sell them for advertising purposes. In extreme cases, however, such applications use critical information such as account and credit card information or encrypt the stored data to retrieve the owner of the smartphone.

The most reliable way to capture malicious applications is to use sources of applications that also have free applications

It is therefore advisable to limit the installation of applications on the official Google Play Store or on the Apple App Store, because even if there are still applications (mostly short-term) with malicious intentions make Do it, do it Overall, Google and Apple are doing a great job of keeping malware-free applications stores.

In 2017, Google removed more than 700,000 store apps that violated its policies. 99% of applications have done so before even being installed by a single unsuspecting user.

APKMirror (www.apkmirror.com) and F-Droid (f-droid.org), alternative app stores, are also grateful for their precautions as safe sources. But even when installing apps from the Play Store, it is important to be suspicious and vigilant. How to identify by yourself and with relatively little effort malicious applications that pretend to be harmless applications, reveals the box "How to recognize fake applications."

Operating system updates

known in the operating system. Fortunately, Google is fast enough to fill these gaps.

Unfortunately, this does not necessarily mean that the updated versions of Android actually end up among the users. Since many smartphone manufacturers spend a lot of time updating, only deliver them for a short time – or do not provide updates (especially for very inexpensive devices).

Do not use the cheapest models – and inform yourself before buying the manufacturer's reputation with regard to updates or promises of specific updates that? he gives.

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