The T-Mobile G1 gets hijacked!

[ohrock]

Why would you want an Antivirus for your G1? How is that going to solve any problems derive from this vulnerability.

The only reason why windows needs anti-virus is because all files in the system are accessible to all users (this a generalization, because later versions of windows can act a bit like traditional unix and make every user its little world).

Android is no exception to this unix tradition, and as a matter of fact every process is isolated - not only all the processes of a user, like in traditional unix).

If most users in Linux and Mac OS/X don't need antivirus, why would anyone want antivirus for android?

Just a thought!

PS> Clam AV is the big exception, but this unix antivirus is used mostly for unix user's that have to work in a windows network, or unix mail servers that will deliver email to windows machines.