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No, 900 million Android devices are not at risk from the 'Quadrooter' monster
Guys, gals, aardvarks, fishes: I'm running out of ways to say this. Your Android device is not in any immediate danger of being taken over a super-scary malware monster.
It's a silly thing to say, I realize, but we go through this same song and dance every few months: Some company comes out with a sensational headline about how millions upon millions of Android users are in danger (DANGER!) of being infected (HOLY HELL!) by a Big, Bad Virus™ (A WHAT?!) any second now. Countless media outlets (cough, cough) pick up the story and run with it, latching onto that same sensational language without actually understanding a lick about Android security or the context that surrounds it.
To wit: As you've no doubt seen by now, our latest Android malware scare du jour is something an antivirus software company called Check Point has smartly dubbed "Quadrooter" (a name worthy of Batman villain status if I've ever heard one). The company is shouting from the rooftops that 900 million (MILLION!) users are at risk of data loss, privacy loss, and presumably also loss of all bladder control -- all because of this hell-raising "Quadrooter" demon and its presence on Qualcomm's mobile processors.
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900 Million Androids Could Be Easy Prey for QuadRooter Exploits
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Annoying "Open PDF in Edge" Default Option Puts Windows 10 Users at Risk
Microsoft released today its monthly security patch, and one of the five security bulletins labeled as critical was a remote code execution (RCE) flaw in its standard PDF rendering library that could be exploited when opening PDF files.
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