Google intensifies the fight against malicious applications for Android smartphones. A new system checks the apps on the official software platform, Android Market, said the company.
Google also wants unspecified controls on newly registered software developers to prevent malicious programs known providers to return under another name.
In recent months, Google had to repeatedly remove malicious apps from the Android Market.
The new system called "Bouncer" (bouncer) simulate how applications will run on Android devices, Google The verification run automatically, so developers need not wait for the release of their apps - that's at the Apple App Store platform is the case.
Google stressed that the danger had dropped by malicious apps. Even if the vendors of Anti-virus software were registered in the past few months, an increase of Android-pests, the real risk fell: In the second half of 2011 were 40 percent less "potentially harmful" Apps from the Android Market been downloaded as the first.
According to the company was largely attributable to the new bouncer system for the decline. It is already applied since 2011, Google made this public only now, however.
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