The T-Mobile G1 gets hijacked!

[Jorsher]

Originally Posted by 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.

I haven't used an anti-virus on Windows in years, it's not necessary

99% of cases, the virus is on a computer because someone downloaded it. Be careful, use common sense, and there's a very, very small chance that something will magically appear on your PC.

As commented above: an antivirus wouldn't protect you from this. It's NOT a virus.