On Thu, Nov 24, 2011 at 7:41 PM, Pete <psmo...@live.com> wrote: > Hi all, > > Probably a mute point, and I have no wish to feed a troll, but on TV > earlier they were advertising 'Norton Tablet Security' for Android tablets, > given the close similarity between Android and LINUX / UNIX based systems > (I believe Android started out as open source based on LINUX), is it now > essential to install an Anti-virus / anti malware on our systems? > > Just got me thinking thats all. > > Regards > > Pete. > > Linux is a kernel and Android is an operating system which uses the Linux kernel.
I guess the vectors for attack on an Android system are going to be different from a say - an Ubuntu system. I know it's probably weird to bring Windows into the equation but it demonstrates my point quite well. 70% of the vulnerabilities in MS Windows from the past 5 years wouldn't have affected server core even though it uses the same kernel. Why? Because it is missing many of the 'features' of the full version (like a GUI for instance) which reduces it's attack vector. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windows_Server_2008#Server_Core Just goes to show, that the majority of vulnerabilities are in parts of the operating system other than the kernel... Chris
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