Android Does Not Need Antivirus; Google Official Lashes Out at Vendors

Device Magazine - Google’s open source software team has come out in the open, criticizing firms selling antivirus software for Android and other mobile devices. The company has claimed that Android, iOS, and RIM Blackberry operating systems do not need antivirus software.

Chris DiBona, Google’s open-source Program Manager, while reacting to a press report attacking the inherent vulnerability of open-source software as used by both Android and Apple’s iOS, has clarified that in case you read a report from a vendor that tries to sell you something based on protecting Android, RIM or iOS from viruses that vendor could even be a scammer or a charlatan.

Calling upon such vendors selling virus protection for Android, RIM or IOS, he said they need to be ashamed of themselves.