by Rachel Metz, Technology Review
Long gone are the days when the only computer viruses you had to worry about were those that would harm your desktop or laptop machine. The rapid rise of smart phones and tablets—along with third-party apps that do everything from looking up restaurants to hailing cabs—presents all-new security threats, with the potential to give a handheld device a lot more than a case of e-sniffles. And even if an app isn’t doing anything that’s clearly malicious, like forwarding your usernames and passwords to hackers, it might be collecting more information than it needs. With this in mind, a startup called TrustGo Mobile Security has released a free app called TrustGo Antivirus & Mobile Security, for phones running Google’s Android software (the most popular smart-phone operating system, with 51 percent of the market at the end of 2011, according to Gartner—and one that is increasingly the target of malware disseminators).
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