We have already heard on many occasions that in Google Play, the official Android application store, there are many infectious applications that carry viruses, that is, there are malware. Regardless of whether or not this is an exaggeration and that we can skip those applications with common sense, the American company has put the batteries and are developing a new layer of security for the store, a antivirus scanner on Google Play.
Android Police has found some files in the APK of the latest update of the Google Play store that indicate that the Mountain View company is working in that direction. In fact, they have even found the images that will be used to report threats. It would be a virus scanning service for users. We already knew that Google used Bouncer to filter the applications that entered its database, using a pre-approval analysis that included review, comparison with other applications and references to developers who have uploaded malware occasionally.
In this case, it is that from Google Play we will be able to check if the applications installed on our devices are safe, that is, a kind of check, and also we can analyze an application before installing it. In the event that it detects that it may be dangerous, it would warn us, although we will always have the option to install despite the warning if we are very brave or if, being root, we use applications from sources that the Google database is unknown or considers dangerous.
In the end, we would have two layers of security to protect the health of our tablet or phone: one that Google does and another that we do to our device from time to time to know that everything is fine.
Precisely, we were talking about the Android threats had increased by IC3 and now it seems that the search engine's company is already working to solve it.
This detail has been found among other features such as gift cards and the list of applications that we want in Google Play, which we already talked about a couple of months ago.
Source: Android Police