Google Play Protect: how anti-malware works for Android applications

Google Play Protect is a security service set up by Google on the Play Store to allow users to know which applications are verolled or not.

Google Play Protect, of which the Google I/O is talked about is an anti-malware service offered by Google on Android phones.It has taken up already existing safety features on Android for a long time, but it allows users to check their operations.There are also some interesting new features.

Deployment started

Play Protect is gradually starting to deploy and some users can see it on the Play Store.Here at the editorial staff, we can take advantage of it on our OnePlus 5.

Indeed in the "My Games and Applications" tab, a "Play Protect" card has appeared and allows you to check manually if the applications installed on the terminal are not verolled.Such verification does not take more than 7 seconds.

Play Protect in my games and applications.

In addition, a Play Protect tab was also invited to the Play Store side menu.In this one, we can see which applications have been recently verified.It is also possible to activate or deactivate Google automatic scans to find out if the terminal is doing well.

The Play Protect menu.

Play Protect also indicates that it checks the safety of applications before downloading from the Play Store.But, the service goes even further: the applications downloaded from unknown sources are now also verified by Google.So you will no longer have the surprise to end up with malware after downloading an obscure APK file on the Internet.

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In addition, as it has already done for years, Google checks millions of applications on the Play Store every day to find out if the user can trust them or not.Play Protect seems above all a way to highlight the efforts of the Mountain View firm.

The deployment of Play Protect may be quite slow.However, you can already know more about the dedicated web page.Know in particular that to take advantage of Play Protect, the Play Services must be up to date.Do not hesitate to share your Play Protect experience with us in comments, you could be surprised by the discoveries of the service.

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