#Google bouncer security scanner update

Moreover, Google reports that there was a decrease of potentially malicious Android application downloads during that period. Improve Your Customer Experience with Omnichannel Communication and SMSĪccording to Google, Bouncer, was already doing its excellent job since the first and second halves of last year 2011.

What we don’t realize and know is that there’s one layer in the Android Market that scans automatically all the software without disrupting the services while we’re on shopping. Admittedly, they said that the Android devices such as smartphones and tablets (also the phablets) users are rapidly growing statistically and along with that increase of Android consumers is also the influx of visitors on Android Market from where they get or download their free or paid Android applications. The application codenamed Bouncer was introduced by Hiroshi Lockheimer, VP of Engineering, Android on their official blog site. Bouncer is the background application Google has developed mainly to maintain a secured and virus-free central repository of Android applications from which we call Android Market.

Let’s go back to the main topic, in accordance to this malware issues (I am not really sure if this is coincidental or not) Google introduced their security system that has been already running for quite some time and it is codenamed “ Bouncer“.

#Google bouncer security scanner update

For whatever reasons, I will post and update you why Symantec retracted their initial statement and how they are now perceived by many. However, the report is still in question and it looks like Symantec have retracted their previous report. Earlier this week, we’ve heard and saw the report from Symantec where they exposed 13 Android applications in the Android Market lurking with malicious contents.