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Google will give your Android phone routine checkups to ensure it’s malware-free

11
Apr
2014

Google is going an extra step to help make sure all of your Android apps are behaving exactly as they’re supposed to. The company announced on Thursday that it would be expanding its Verify apps security system to routinely run scans of apps on your device to make sure that they aren’t doing anything suspicious or malicious. Previously Verify would only scan apps for malware while you were downloading them but that did little to stop those apps from behaving badly after they were installed. For instance, we recently read about some legitimate apps found on the Google Play store that were being covertly used to mine Bitcoins and other cryptocurrencies without users’ knowledge. The hope now is that Verify apps

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