"Anti-Virus on Android: Beware of Low-Quality Apps"

Most of the anti-virus applications on Google Play Store for androids are very low quality.  More than half of the apps - 138 out of 250 detected 30 percent or less of the malicious samples or had high false-positive rates.  This means that a non-malicious app gets flagged as being bad.  Having an anti-virus software that is low quality makes ones android more vulnerable to attacks.  

Govinfo Security reports: "Anti-Virus on Android: Beware of Low-Quality Apps"

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