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Mapin also hit third-party Android software markets, affecting more than a dozen apps there in the last two years. Many of these apps are still available outside of the official Google Play Store.

So imagine the surprise (heard, read) around the world when Google’s chief security engineer for Android, Adrian Ludwig, announced that anti-virus apps may not be terribly valuable on that platform.