The Android ecosystem certainly has its fair share of malware and other harmful software, but according to Google the company is starting to make some serious headway when it comes to getting rid of it. While as you are likely imagining, it isn’t completely gone, but the company says that the amount of harmful software installs on the platform fell dramatically across 2014.
Last year saw a 50 percent drop in malware installs on Android devices. Google says that while only 1 percent of all Android devices had harmful software installed, that number drops significantly to around 0.15 percent for devices that only rely on Google Play for apps.
