Well, of course there are no antimalware apps for IOS. Apple would have
to allow this in both the App Store and the IOS SDK. This has no bearing
on the underlying security of IOS though.
The IOS ecosystem is more secure than Android's ecosystem, as I said in
my original email, and there's no debate on this. For this reason,
there isn't a need at the moment for antimalware software on IOS. This
doesn't mean that the underlying IOS operating system is more secure
than the underlying Android operating system. Malware has crept into the
App Store, although to this point it hasn't stayed there long. Security
vulnerabilities in IOS are exploited in order to jail break IOS. Apple
has had to release security fixes for IOS. There is plenty of malware on
jail broken iPhones.
Antimalware software for Android phones is there to protect against
malicious software you could put on your phone in various ways. The fact
that this software exists, in no way indicates that the underlying OS is
less secure, and in fact supports Android's commitment to security in
their willingness to open up the Android SDK to allow for the scanning
of malware.
Malware authors go after Android and not IOS because it's more open, not
because it's less secure. There are plenty of articles on the web that
talk about how as an OS, IOS has more known security vulnerabilities in
it than does Android. Here's just one such article
http://www.theinquirer.net/inquirer/news/2262231/apple-ios-had-more-security-vulnerabilities-than-android-in-2012
Since the IOS ecosystem is more secure than Android's, and since most
people agree that the unjailbroken IOS ecosystem doesn't need any
antimalware software, I think the debate as to how secure the underlying
OS's are is academic and doesn't need to be hashed out on this list. The
unsubstantiated statements made in this thread on how Android is less
secure than IOS isn't going to change my opinion based on the security
papers I've read, and I can't imagine pointing to any such research is
going to change the mind of the die hard Apple purist who's convinced
IOS can't be broken into.
On 05/22/2013 10:12 PM, Andy Baracco wrote:
For Macs, yes, but not for IOS because it is not needed.
Andy
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I believe they sell anti-malware for iOs also, so what does that say? LOL.
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