Does Microsoft Security Essentials scan for the signature of viruses and spyware on FAT32 android files?

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.

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

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