Two Thirds Of Android Antivirus Apps Dont Work Properly

Jon Fingas writing for Engadget

In some cases, the failure is a simple one: they’re not really scanning app code. AV-Comparatives found that are just using app whitelists or blacklists, and sometimes very broad ones at that. They may allow all apps whose package files start with “com.instagram,” but it would be trivial to create rogue apps that used a variant on that name.