"Virus Shield", an app that briefly shot to the top of the charts on Google Play, has turned out to be a complete fake and has therefore been pulled by Google.
Its CEO claims that the data collection was legal.
An Avast antivirus subsidiary sells 'Every search. Every click. Every buy. On every site.' Its clients have included Home Depot, Google, Microsoft, Pepsi, and McKinsey.
A shocking analysis of antivirus apps with many of these apps [that failed] also appeared to have been developed by the same programmer on an assembly line
Fuck thats scary... So much for open source detecting things like this.