Sentences with phrase «pha install»

«The decrease in PHA install rate is primarily due to campaigns to clean up apps in the Ghost Push family,» Google said.

As a result, in October 2017, we enabled offline scanning in Play Protect, and have since prevented 10 million more PHA installs.

Since Google started measuring Android security in 2014, it's found that on average less than 1 percent of devices have PHAs installed.

Overall, the rate of PHA installs, both inside and outside of Google Play, dropped in 2016 compared to 2015, «primarily as a result of improved detection of large families such as Ghost Push,» the report said.

By Q4 2016, fewer than 0.71 percent of devices had PHAs installed.

Not exact matches

In 2016, 0.77 percent of devices had installed a PHA, compared to 0.56 percent in 2017.

Copycats accounted for more than 250,000 of the 700,000 rejected apps during 2017, while PHAs (Potentially Harmful Applications) are described as «small in volume», commanding 50 percent fewer installs than the previous year thanks to Google Play Protect.

To help combat malicious apps that users either knowingly or unknowingly install on their devices from outside the Google Play Store, Play Protect scans through every Android device (running Android 4.3 Jelly Bean or above) looking for these potentially harmful apps (PHAs) and removes them.

Users are told to opt into Google Play Protect and to download apps exclusively from the Google Play Store because «the chance you will install a PHA [potentially harmful app] is much lower on Google Play than using other install mechanisms».