[citation][nom]fakkchekk[/nom]I've summarized the facts for all of you in the article:1. You would have to use some shady 3rd party Russian app store and intentionally install this "virus"2. It has nothing to do with Google Play other than borrowing the icon from it3. It's possible to write such a "virus" for any platform4. This may not even be real, rather just a marketing ploy to sell you antivirus for you phoneA far cry from the tradional Windows virus that can infect you're PC just from the act of visiting a website without even installing anything, or having the PC plugged into the internet.[/citation]
1. Not true. People on Android forums are always giving links to each other for APK's to be downloaded from, not neccessarily app store web sites. On the Phandroid forums the other day someone asked for the Google Play APK. Had someone wanted to distribute this malware, all they have to do is send a link to download it from and voila, they have the malware. And people trust each others far to much on these forums because they think of themselves as a tight knot community.
2. Very true, but that doesn't take away from the risk and possible damages.
3. Also true, but the blind fan kiddies of Linux and it's OS variants such as Android still scream Linux is perfectly secure.
4. This to is a distinct possibility, or perhaps the malware is real and they made it. However, looking up Dr Web they do seem to be a legitimate antivirus company that even made the discovery of the Flashback malware on the Mac, so I would say this is likely a real threat they didn't make, but are using it to help market their own product, which isn't a bad thing as all antivirus and malware protection software makers use any sort of malware as a way of saying "Hey, we can protect you against this".