Android's New Google Play Protect System Miserably Fails First Security Test

itman · Oct 26, 2017

Google's new Play Protect security system did not survive its first real-world tests, and the system was ranked dead last in an experiment carried out by German antivirus testing lab AV-Test.

According to results the laboratory posted on social media, Google Play Protect detected only 65.8% of new malware samples and only 79.2% of one-month-old malware.

Both results are last in their respective categories, as most mobile antivirus solutions scored results in the 99%-100% range, with a few exceptions.
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daman1 · Oct 27, 2017

I knew it was a joke since it was introduced, I have bitdefender installed as my primary anyway.

guest · Mar 9, 2020

Google Play Protect Miserably Fails Android Protection Tests
March 9, 2020
https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/ne...ect-miserably-fails-android-protection-tests/

Google's Play Protect Android mobile threat protection system failed German antivirus testing lab AV-Test real-world tests, scoring zero out of a maximum of six points after very weak malware detection performance.
Today, Google's Play Protect is deployed on over 2.5 billion active Android devices as shown by the Android security center.
Anything else but Google Play Protect
According to AV-Test's results, Google Play Protect was able to detect a little over one-third of the roughly 6,700 malware samples the testing lab used throughout the tests which means that more than 4,000 of them were able to infect the test devices.

Google Play Protect detected 37% of 3,300 newly discovered samples — not more than 2 to 24 hours old — in the real-time testing phase, and 33.1% in the reference set test that used 3,300 malware samples that have been circulating for up to 4 weeks.
As can be seen in the below screenshot, both results are the last in the rankings, with all other mobile antivirus security solutions having detection rates above 98% in both protection tests.
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Google Play Protect also had issues with false alarms as it mistakenly tagged about 30 harmless applications as being a threat to the test devices.

"The current test indicates, however, that Android users should not rely solely on Play Protect," the testing lab adds.
"As the detection rates of Google Play Protect are really quite poor, the use of a good security app is highly recommended."
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AV-Test: Here's how well 17 Android Security Apps Provide Protection

Google ensures that each app in the Play Store and on smartphones is checked for Trojans and other kinds of malware. The current test shows that Android users are much safer with security apps than if they rely on Google. Here are the facts.
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