Over 50 Malware Apps On Android Market

TO be honest , i was expecting this . The Android Market has been growing exponentially every single day and there were talks of the android market going past the apple store.This makes android market a prime target as a lot of users use it to download many apps.Android being opensource is easy to create malware and even more easy to put the apps on the android market.

THis is exactly what happened , google first reported that it removed around 21 malware apps from the market and now the toll has gone over 50 . Its just a matter of time when more and more of these malware apps come onto the market unless google changes their policy on uploading apps to the android market. It is reported that over 50,000 users download these apps every single day.
Some of these apps are so dangerous that they give root access to the phone and even take screenshots of the phone from time to time making it a major privacy threat.So before you download any app from the android market make sure you research well about it on the internet and make sure its a genuine app.


Here is a list of the bad apps that were removed by Google. All of these applications were made by an entity called Myournet.

* Falling Down
* Super Guitar Solo
* Super History Eraser
* Photo Editor
* Super Ringtone Maker
* Super Sex Positions
* Hot Sexy Videos
* Chess
* 下坠滚球_Falldown
* Hilton Sex Sound
* Screaming Sexy Japanese Girls
* Falling Ball Dodge
* Scientific Calculator
* Dice Roller
* 躲避弹球
* Advanced Currency Converter
* APP Uninstaller
* 几何战机_PewPew
* Funny Paint
* Spider Man
* 蜘蛛侠

There are a lot more to this list. Lifehacker has shown a way to help prevent downloading these apps by downloading an app called LookOut. You can read more about this from HERE .