6th Annual Judith Ramaley Celebration of Research and Creative Scholarship
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Poster #102 Privacy Issues of Antivirus Apps For Smartphones Neema Shakya Faculty Mentors: Gerald W. Cichanowski and Mingrui Zhang There are thousands of antivirus applications available for the Android market. Most of these applications help assure protection of the smartphones but they require access to a cellphone’s private data and sensitive information. Often users do not know the type of data that is being used. Hence, the safety of data has become a critical issue when it comes to smartphone applications. We take a set of 30 antivirus applications easily available from the Android market and test them using the static and dynamic analysis tools ComDroid and TaintDroid. Based on the analysis, we found that around 95% of the applications have access to user’s private information and possibility of malicious activities. |
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