HI Kris, Good question! Anti-virus is based on signature files which identify the security threats. While this worked somewhat in the past, it's pretty ineffective against today's threats which can change their signatures much faster than AV products can update their signatures.
Belarc's Security Advisor is based on discovering and helping you update the existing vulnerabilities, both apps and operating system, and thereby not allowing the security threats to affect your Android device. This works no matter how often the threat signatures change. Naturally there are always new vulnerabilities being discovered, and this is why we are planning to release new updates to the Security Advisor on a regular schedule. We have a discussion of this topic, with links to security papers from the NSA and SANS, here: http://www.belarc.com/sa_full.html and here for mobiles :)) http://m.belarc.com/sa.html Feel free to contact us if you have any additional questions. Regards, Sumin On Thursday, May 16, 2013 2:30:36 PM UTC-4, sumin tchen wrote: > > We've just released a free App that protects your Android phones and > tablets by testing for all known software and operating system > vulnerabilities. > > https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.belarc.securityadvisor<http://www.linkedin.com/redirect?url=https%3A%2F%2Fplay%2Egoogle%2Ecom%2Fstore%2Fapps%2Fdetails%3Fid%3Dcom%2Ebelarc%2Esecurityadvisor&urlhash=r5lH&_t=tracking_anet> > > Please send us your comments. (e) [email protected] > > Sumin > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Android Security Discussions" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/android-security-discuss?hl=en. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
