Geinimi Malware Targets Android OS Mobile Phones

Computers, both laptops and desktops, and Macs, or whatever your preference in gadgets, have known the likes of McAfee, AVG and Avast, a few of the anti-virus software which are consistently offered upon sale or for downloading. All the anti-virus items are there to protect the precious information a customer wants to keep from hackers or viruses from taking advantage of. Along with the rapid rise of devices that are able to access the Internet is also the proliferation of various malware which are beginning to target the more unprotected slice of the Internet pie: Your Web-savvy phone.

McAfee, currently the largest anti-virus company out there, has already released its Threats Report for the last quarter of 2010, and it also contains gloomy predictions for 2011. According to the report, the more devices that are able to access the Internet, the more that Web threats will continue to grow in parallel with the size and sophistication of these gadgets. The mobile malware in 2009 burgeoned 46% in 2010, hinting that cybercriminals have started sniffing out a new territory aside from the typical computers, as phones are beginning to become the primary source for work and leisure on the Web.