I replied to you via email but once again here. AVAST never contacted us prior to this article! I am not saying that AVAST is distributing trojans, I am saying that AVAST has an interest in spreading fear among the android community. They are actually accusing us of putting the trojan out and never said a single word about the file on the Market, and I have no idea where they obtained that cracked file they are reviewing, we have no copy of it...You can also clearly see that there is no such wat.php file on our servers... They are actually, somewhere between the lines and very unclear, insinuating that the APK file they review is also an actual App on the Market! This can not be considered simply "untrue", this can only be considered as a lie. If they took their time to review the cracked APK file they could've easily taken the time to unpack the actual App as well and see that no such code exists on our Market App.
But like I said, putting a scary "Android Malware" article on the internet is better than the actual facts. This seem to work very well for "normal" journalists nowadays as weel. We have contacted AVAST about this article. On Mar 22, 7:29 pm, Droid_BT <[email protected]> wrote: > I think you are out of line by merely insinuating that an Anti-Virus > company is out there distributing malware and trojans. That's just as > bad as what you're complaining about THEM doing... > > On Mar 22, 2:15 pm, Georgi Tanmazov <[email protected]> > wrote: > > > > > > > > > Upon further notice I see that the original article comes from AVAST, > > company specialized in anti piracy software. I guess they have a vast > > interest in spreading fear among Android users and then pushing an > > Android App for that. I could very well imagine company like AVAST > > putting such trojans on the loose for Apps that are being popular. > > > We have not being contacted by that company prior to this article and > > are looking into ways of getting this article down as it clearly > > violates any ethical principles of journalism or moral business > > ethics... -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Android Security Discussions" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/android-security-discuss?hl=en.
