Two-thirds of Android’s antivirus apps found to be completely useless

According to rigorous new tests undertaken by AV-Comparatives, two-thirds of the antivirus apps available for Android devices offer no protection whatsoever. 

In its ongoing mission to offer systemic testing of security software, the independent organization put 250 Android antivirus apps through their paces, finding that all but 80 of them failed to meet even the site’s minimum requirements for basic security.

According to the site’s 2019 test, less than a third of the apps examined managed to detec