Google has published the annual safety report in which he reports on security improvements from an Android device. From this report, the number of apps that has to be scanned daily in search of malware or other problems that threaten the "health" of the terminal stands out enormously.
Mountain View-based company scans daily 6.000 billion apps installed and 400 million devices. It also comments, among the most outstanding, that hundreds of millions of Chrome users protect daily through Safe Browsing when they enter websites of dubious origin.
Regarding the comparisons with the previous year, the image that can be obtained is almost identical. Google maintains that, during the course of 2016, PHAs, or known as "Potentially Harmful Apps," were installed on less than 0,15 percent of the devices that typically enter Google Play. If you include all the devices in the Android ecosystem that use Google services, such as those obtained by third-party apps from other stores, the figure rises to 0,5 percent. Already last year Google itself maintained that that figure was less than one percent.
In that new report released by those from Mountain View, highlight the new security extras that have been added such as app permissions and full disk encryption as a requirement for most Marshmallow devices. Android also participated in Google's bounty program for bug bounty hunters and has said that it has fixed 100 vulnerabilities that were reported through this solution with a payment made of $ 200.000 to the "researchers."
Another of those measures are Marshmallow security patches that keeps users informed about the status of their device.