Investigation of Static and Dynamic Android Anti-virus Strategies
Yan Ma, Mehrdad S. Sharbaf · 2013
Nowadays e-commerce is being substituted by m-commerce with the strong push from smart phone. Android phone, iPhone, BlackBerry and Windows Phone are typical smart phone models. According to comScore [1] Android takes more than 50% and iPhones takes more than 31% of smart phone market share in US in 2012. This research paper focuses on Anti-Virus strategies on Android platform because it is the most popular smart phone platform, it is an open-source environment, and it has more applications than Apple Store. The anti-virus strategies will be introduced in two categories with three samples: static analysis and dynamic analysis. Detail descriptions about Stowaway, AASandbox and Droidbox are provided. The analyses of their advantages/disadvantages are followed. The research paper is focused to develop an outline of Android anti-virus strategies to individuals, government agencies and private sectors that are interested in and help you to decide which anti-virus application to choose.