Google’s own Play Store antivirus system is disturbingly unreliable

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by Sindy Cator on October 24, 2017 at 2:47 pm

Google is going through a rough patch this week – and things just got a little worse for the Mountain View company. In its latest monthly software review, independent antivirus testing firm AV-TEST inspected Google’s Play Protect – the Google Play antivirus system put in place to guard your phone from malicious apps – and found it to be significantly less reliable than most third-party alternatives. In fact, the research suggests that, on average, Play Protect performs more than 25 percent worse than competing solutions when it comes to detecting infected software. This makes Google’s antivirus program the least trustworthy solution out…