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Google Removed 39 Million Harmful Applications in Play-store
Google Play Protect
Last year Google rolled a new feature to Android devices called the ‘Play Protect.’ The main aim of this step was to protect the two billion users of Google from Potentially Harmful Application or PHAs. According to Google, the Play Protect automatically reviews 50 billion apps daily and keeps the trouble at bay for Android and ChromeOS users. The application does so by putting its Machine Learning algorithm to use. Google claims that over 60.3% of the PHAs detected were discovered by the Machine Learning part of the program.
Last year Google rolled a new feature to Android devices called the ‘Play Protect.’ The main aim of this step was to protect the two billion users of Google from Potentially Harmful Application or PHAs. According to Google, the Play Protect automatically reviews 50 billion apps daily and keeps the trouble at bay for Android and ChromeOS users. The application does so by putting its Machine Learning algorithm to use. Google claims that over 60.3% of the PHAs detected were discovered by the Machine Learning part of the program.
Protection of Devices
The Vice President of Security at Google also offered some stats saying that his team managed to remove a massive number of 39 million PHAs and they also overcame a closely related problem. Google figured that nearly 35% of Potentially Harmful Apps were being installed while the devices were offline. This urged the team to enable detection of PHAs by the Play Protect even when the phones of users were offline. This update was pushed to devices in October 2017 resulting in prevention of 10million additional PHAs.
The Vice President of Security at Google also offered some stats saying that his team managed to remove a massive number of 39 million PHAs and they also overcame a closely related problem. Google figured that nearly 35% of Potentially Harmful Apps were being installed while the devices were offline. This urged the team to enable detection of PHAs by the Play Protect even when the phones of users were offline. This update was pushed to devices in October 2017 resulting in prevention of 10million additional PHAs.
Preventing Download of Harmful Apps
Google said that users who downloaded app from the Google Play store were nine times safer from PHA download rather than the people who downloaded app from unauthorized sources. Therefore, last year in 2017 Google Play Protect boasted of scanning 65% more apps than what it did in 2016. This huge stride forward in the security resulted in a 60% decline of PHA installation from outside the Play Store.
Google said that users who downloaded app from the Google Play store were nine times safer from PHA download rather than the people who downloaded app from unauthorized sources. Therefore, last year in 2017 Google Play Protect boasted of scanning 65% more apps than what it did in 2016. This huge stride forward in the security resulted in a 60% decline of PHA installation from outside the Play Store.
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