Fake Instagram app infects Android devices with malware

[onehandle]

Ah, the 'open' platform.

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Tempted to try out the much talked about Instagram app? Well, be careful where you get it from - as malware authors are distributing malware disguised as the popular app.

It's a rain cloud on a summer's day for the Instagram photo-sharing smartphone app, which is otherwise having a glorious time right now.

First of all, Instagram released a first version for Android and managed to get five million downloads in less than a week.

Then the 13-employee firm managed to sell itself to Facebook for a cool $1 billion, making some of us wonder about privacy, and others think - "to heck with that, do I have a program that's never earnt any money that I might be able to flog to Mark Zuckerberg?".

http://nakedsecurity.sophos.com/2012/04/18/fake-instagram-app-android-malwar

[Riftaxe]

1. I'll take open over an OS that needs to be 'Jailbreaked'

in order to make it functional, any day!

[Occulus]

2. And for STUPID THINGS that should have been part of the OS from the start, no less

You have to jailbreak iOS to manually free up memory. That, Mactivists, is pathetic.

IMO, Android beats iOS hands down in every category. And yes, I've used both. Android is just better, across the board.

[.99center]

6. Exactly, you shouldn't need to!

But the damn O/S isn't "COMPETENT" enough to do it well enough on its own. Since the same O/S gets distributed across Iphones and its the O/S that handles memory usage, are you suggesting a recall since it affects all their products and in your words its "broken"?

[Snake Alchemist]

12. Considering it doesn't allow true multi-tasking that is not much of a selling point. nt

[Snake Alchemist]

14. Easy, performing two or more tasks simultaneously.

http://www.pcworld.com/article/199528/multitasking_with_ios_4_is_horrible_apple_blew_it.html

[Snake Alchemist]

16. The OS, of course, reserves the right to hibernate back- grounded tasks in order to optimize memory

Truer multitasking has never been seen.

[Snake Alchemist]

21. Keep making excuses.

[Snake Alchemist]

24. I'm the only one presenting facts, but I don't have an ideology to defend. nt

[Snake Alchemist]

26. Frankly, it's obvious you've got nothing.

Here's another, but keep trying. http://www.extremetech.com/computing/112013-how-multitasking-works-on-android-and-ios

[Snake Alchemist]

29. ROFL! Go collect your check. nt

[2ndAmForComputers]

3. Yeah, open systems are inherently insecure. That's why Linux has more viruses than OSX and Windows.

Oh, wait...

[Occulus]

4. It's all those contaminated kernel builds floating around.

Oh, wait...

[Riftaxe]

8. Heh i cannot be sure, but i suspect the poster you are responding to

has never had the pleasure of telling a customer he needs to rebuild a kernel, because *cough* red h...somthing, decided it would be cool to free less memory then it allocates for an exception....

[2ndAmForComputers]

11. Pro tip: Linux today is much different from Linux in 1998.

[Riftaxe]

18. And some day it be a professional grade OS

But while the world hold's it's breath, i will suffer with the ones that already pretend it is like the rest of us

Lord and if i wanted to complain about Linux, last thing i would mention was it's horrid record of stability.

[2ndAmForComputers]

19. Have a blast. Everybody is free to say it snows in Egypt.

And to dive in the big river that's there.

[Riftaxe]

9. Linux and OSX are irrelevant

A few pariahs do make software souly for those OS's (well not me for linux any more thankfully, i always preferred Solaris anyways), but in the real world they have been bypassed as not worth the time. Consider that for a moment.

Why would i bother writing a program to renice a CPU hog for such a limited audience and get nothing out of it? (well, other then a fellow geek pounding his head against a wall)

[2ndAmForComputers]

10. Wait. Wait a second. Linux and OSX are "irrelevant" and Solaris isn't?

[Riftaxe]

20. I code what i am paid for

But while among the UNIX flavors (I suspect even the most jaded, will grant it beats tru64 in a heart beat) people tend to want programs for systems actually have, and they are a heck of a lot more cynical about 'bugs' in code then in OS.

Solaris is my personal preference only.

[Brickbat]

22. What's the deal with Instagram anyways?

It adds some red or green, and that's worth a billion?

[DotGone]

27. Sepia dude! Shiny! Or are U not hip?