A Review of Free Cloud-Based Anti-Malware Apps for Android

The traditional way of protecting a system against malicious threats and loss of personal data by using locally installed anti-malware software is unlikely to work on mobile devices due to the changing threat landscape and the mobile device resource limitations (e.g. storage and battery life). A num...

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Published in2015 IEEE Trustcom/BigDataSE/ISPA Vol. 1; pp. 1053 - 1058
Main Authors Walls, Jason, Choo, Kim-Kwang Raymond
Format Conference Proceeding
LanguageEnglish
Published IEEE 01.08.2015
Subjects
Android anti-malware
Androids
cloud anti-malware apps
Cloud computing
Humanoid robots
Malware
Mobile communication
permissions model
Smart phones
threats
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Summary:The traditional way of protecting a system against malicious threats and loss of personal data by using locally installed anti-malware software is unlikely to work on mobile devices due to the changing threat landscape and the mobile device resource limitations (e.g. storage and battery life). A number of anti-malware providers have migrated to the cloud where the computationally demanding tasks of analyzing malware is conducted by cloud-based server. However, the effectiveness of these anti-mobile apps has not been studied. Therefore, in this paper, we evaluate the effectiveness of ten popular free cloud-based anti-malware apps using a known Android malware dataset. We hope that this research will contribute towards a better understanding of the effectiveness of Android cloud-based anti-malware apps.
DOI:10.1109/Trustcom.2015.482