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Does Microsoft Security Essentials scan for the signature of viruses and spyware on FAT32 android files?
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I prefer to do maintenance on my iRulu android smart phone, than to buy another every two years. I removed the 16GB xSD card and placed it in an SDHC adapter and placed that into a vacant SDHC port on my Acer Aspire One netbook. The file format is FAT32. A checkdisk scan showed no file corruption. But given free access to the file system, I found a half dozen files in LOST.DIR which I deleted, so maybe some issues are resolved. Ever scupulous, I did a Microsoft Security Essentials scan for viruses and spyware, none found. However, maybe I am too srupulous because I do not know if Microsoft Security Essentials knows about such signatures on Android. It could if it was a feature. Question: Does Microsoft Security Essentials scan for the signature of viruses and spyware on FAT32 android files? Thanks in advance. |
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Does Microsoft Security Essentials scan for the signature ofviruses and spyware on FAT32 android files?
Norm X wrote:
Hi, I prefer to do maintenance on my iRulu android smart phone, than to buy another every two years. I removed the 16GB xSD card and placed it in an SDHC adapter and placed that into a vacant SDHC port on my Acer Aspire One netbook. The file format is FAT32. A checkdisk scan showed no file corruption. But given free access to the file system, I found a half dozen files in LOST.DIR which I deleted, so maybe some issues are resolved. Ever scupulous, I did a Microsoft Security Essentials scan for viruses and spyware, none found. However, maybe I am too srupulous because I do not know if Microsoft Security Essentials knows about such signatures on Android. It could if it was a feature. Question: Does Microsoft Security Essentials scan for the signature of viruses and spyware on FAT32 android files? Thanks in advance. I would expect it to "look for things that affect the Windows platform". It takes hundreds of people to add content to the database used for AV tools, and no company "does you a favor" by doubling their staff and scanning for stuff coming from some other ecosystem (a Google ecosystem). While some of the companies offer products on more than one platform, if you look at the product descriptions, it doesn't look like there is a serious problem there to begin with. They may be trading on their good name, rather than providing an actual essential service. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Compar...virus_software If you want to "vet" a scanner, you need a malware sample you can place in the file system to be scanned, to see if it can be detected. It's not much, but I drop a copy of EICAR on the volume to be scanned, if I'm using a free Windows scanning disc, just to see if they can even quarantine that successfully or not. So what you'd need in this case, is something fairly benign, which you can use to prove a scanner is cross-platform (for some reason). If Android has a big problem with "X", then placing a copy of "X" on the partition and running the scan, might tell you whether the scanner you're using is any good for this or not. I tried a search on "EICAR for Android" and there is a site claiming to have such a thing. But I would be very careful to research this first, before using it. http://www.apk20.com/apk/284508/ OK, for a laugh, I downloaded this. 17.5KB. Then uploaded to Virustotal. http://www.soft9.us/download.php?app_id=284508 And it lights up pretty good. 19/54. https://www.virustotal.com/en/file/b...is/1479362971/ Paul |
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Does Microsoft Security Essentials scan for the signature ofviruses and spyware on FAT32 android files?
On 11/16/2016 7:16 PM, Norm X wrote:
Hi, I prefer to do maintenance on my iRulu android smart phone, than to buy another every two years. I removed the 16GB xSD card and placed it in an SDHC adapter and placed that into a vacant SDHC port on my Acer Aspire One netbook. The file format is FAT32. A checkdisk scan showed no file corruption. But given free access to the file system, I found a half dozen files in LOST.DIR which I deleted, so maybe some issues are resolved. Ever scupulous, I did a Microsoft Security Essentials scan for viruses and spyware, none found. However, maybe I am too srupulous because I do not know if Microsoft Security Essentials knows about such signatures on Android. It could if it was a feature. Question: Does Microsoft Security Essentials scan for the signature of viruses and spyware on FAT32 android files? Thanks in advance. Microsoft SE is not very good to begin with and you want to know if it scans and detects malware for a different OS such as Android ? That is too phunny ! Hell no ! -- Dave Multi-AV Scanning Tool - http://multi-av.thespykiller.co.uk http://www.pctipp.ch/downloads/dl/35905.asp |
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