Your phone is your investment and a lot of users carry out sensitive data on their phone. The Android platform developed by Google is secured enough than Windows and Symbian but hackers can crack anything. You should be able to safe guard your contacts, photos, text and music videos. Very recently a Trojan horse was discovered by Kaspersky Lab on the Android platform which appeared by the name as ‘harmless media player’. The users who have installed that app were hit with Trojan horse which sends the text messages to premium phone numbers resulting in money passing. Also the DroidDream malware hit a host of apps in Android Market. So the malicious malware or Trojan horse or virus may hit the Android applications too. It’s very important for the phone users to be secured enough and follow some principle guidelines.
However Google Android team has always been back of suspending those dodgy apps if found and they are removed within no time thereby reducing the spyware. Google approves any Android app after it meets the minimum requirement for approval under their policies and they suspend apps and the developer account which violates their policies.
The effect of malicious apps can be like unauthorized purchases from your credit card, record phone calls, steal personal information, account login and hack of other private information.
If you find any suspicious or bad Android Apps while you are on to the Android Market then the best thing to do is report it to the Google Market support team. Reporting inappropriate apps from Android Market team will make the App be flagged can help others too. So how can you report those inappropriate apps to Google?
Reporting Suspicious Apps to Google
As always Google talks the help of the normal users in helping them to remove any application which they find not behaving in the way it should behave. You can make use of Report Inappropriate Apps form at Google support.
This is how the form looks like –
Apart from giving out your personal details like your Name, email you should also provide the application name, developer name and link to market of that app. You can find the developer name just below the name of the Android app in the Market listing. Also you should provide the reason for flagging and explain why you think the app is suspicious in your view. Finally when you are done you should click on Submit.
Once your submit, the respective Google authorities will go through it and removal will depend upon their judgement.
