An Overview of Mobile Malware and Solutions

Fan Wu^*, Hira Narang, Dwayne Clarke

Computer Science Department, Tuskegee University, Tuskegee, Alabama, USA.

DOI: 10.4236/jcc.2014.212002                

Abstract

Mobile Security has been a rapidly growing field in the security area. With the increases of mobile devices and mobile applications, the need for mobile security has increased dramatically over the past several years. Many research and development projects on mobile security are ongoing in government, industry and academia. In this paper, we present an analysis of current mobile security problems and propose the possible solutions to malware threats. Our experiments show antimalware can protect mobile device from different types of mobile malware threats effectively.

Keywords

Mobile Security, Mobile Malware, Anti-Malware

Conflicts of Interest

The authors declare no conflicts of interest.

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