TNW reports, researchers conduct safety tests on Android 4.2, and found that Google own application authentication service is very bad at identifying malicious applications can only prepare for 15.32 percent of known malware.

Application validation Android 4.2 options, Google can identify whether you are ready to install the application is malicious software, if it is harmful, Google will remind you not to install malware, Google may close the installation. Application authentication feature is turned on by default, you can turn off in the settings. But right now, this feature is quite tasteless suspected.













Research of this investigation from the North Carolina State University associate professor of computer science at Xuxian Jiang. The test used the 1260 pandemic virus samples, belonging to 49 different types of malicious software. Researchers to install malicious software to run Android 4.2 Nexus 10 Tablet PC 1260 samples, only 193 Android 4.2 identify.



The researchers randomly extracted from each of malicious software in a sample test in ten representative of the anti-virus software, including Kaspersky and Kingsoft. Google comes with service detection rate of less than 21%, while other anti-virus software detection rate is higher than 50%.

Three months ago, Google acquired VirusTotal, by the end of October, Google released Android 4.2. The researchers found that the VirusTotal separate the performance much better than Google's services. It seems Google is not yet well VirusTotal integrated into Android 4.2.