Title :
Investigation of Static and Dynamic Android Anti-virus Strategies
Author :
Yan Ma ; Sharbaf, Mehrdad Sepehri
Author_Institution :
Comput. Sci. Dept., California State Univ., Carson, CA, USA
Abstract :
Nowadays e-commerce is being substituted by m-commerce with the strong push from smart phone. Android phone, iPhone, BlackBerry and Windows Phone are typical smart phone models. According to comScore [1] Android takes more than 50% and iPhones takes more than 31% of smart phone market share in US in 2012. This research paper focuses on Anti-Virus strategies on Android platform because it is the most popular smart phone platform, it is an open-source environment, and it has more applications than Apple Store. The anti-virus strategies will be introduced in two categories with three samples: static analysis and dynamic analysis. Detail descriptions about Stowaway, AASandbox and Droidbox are provided. The analyses of their advantages/disadvantages are followed. The research paper is focused to develop an outline of Android anti-virus strategies to individuals, government agencies and private sectors that are interested in and help you to decide which anti-virus application to choose.
Keywords :
computer viruses; mobile commerce; operating systems (computers); smart phones; AASandbox; Android phone; BlackBerry; Droidbox; Stowaway; Windows phone; dynamic Android anti-virus strategies; e-commerce; iPhone; m-commerce; open-source environment; smart phone; static Android anti-virus strategies; Internet; Java; Kernel; Libraries; Malware; Mobile communication; Smart phones; Android; Anti-Virus; Static/Dynamic Analysis;
Conference_Titel :
Information Technology: New Generations (ITNG), 2013 Tenth International Conference on
Conference_Location :
Las Vegas, NV
Print_ISBN :
978-0-7695-4967-5
DOI :
10.1109/ITNG.2013.62
