On Thu, 2011-11-24 at 19:41 +0000, Pete wrote: > Hi all, > > Probably a mute point, and I have no wish to feed a troll, but on TV > earlier they were advertising 'Norton Tablet Security' for Android > tablets, given the close similarity between Android and LINUX / UNIX > based systems (I believe Android started out as open source based on > LINUX), is it now essential to install an Anti-virus / anti malware on > our systems?
It is supposed to be more secure that a vanilla Linux system*: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Android_%28operating_system% 29#Application_security That said, any software can have bugs. Regards, Juan * ie: a system with SELinux can implement a sandbox, although it's not "out of the box" as in Android: http://danwalsh.livejournal.com/28545.html -- jjm's home: http://www.usebox.net/jjm/ blackshell: http://blackshell.usebox.net/ en_GB@blog: http://engbblog.wordpress.com/ -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
