Comments on: McAfee: Android Biggest Malware Target Today, Yet Symbian Still Tops It http://paidcontent.org/2011/11/21/419-mcafee-android-biggest-malware-target-today-yet-symbian-still-tops-it/ The economics of digital content Wed, 19 Jun 2013 21:54:48 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: Henry_3_Dogg http://paidcontent.org/2011/11/21/419-mcafee-android-biggest-malware-target-today-yet-symbian-still-tops-it/#comment-86300 Tue, 22 Nov 2011 16:07:06 +0000 http://paidcontent.wp.gostage.it/2011/11/21/419-mcafee-android-biggest-malware-target-today-yet-symbian-still-tops-it/#comment-86300 “Some might think that the reason for the rise has to do with Android being an “open” system, as opposed to something like iOS being “closed.” But McAfee says it’s the sheer popularity of the platform that makes it a target’

Sorry, but that really doesn’t hang together.

Given expectations of about 31M iPhones, 14M iPads and 5M iPod Touches, iOS will also do an average of about 550K devices a day this quarter and has an installed base of over 200 Million devices.

McAfee have a vested interest in making iDevice owners feel vulnerable too.  

iOS malware would have been shown explicitly it it was worth showing.

No, I think malware is just an area where iOS really lags behind Android.

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