Google Explains How It Can Catch Malware Even When ‘Verify Apps’ Is Turned Off

[Lucian Armasu]

Google's Verify apps can help block known malware infected applications, but sometimes the feature may be turned off. That's when Google uses the "Dead or Insecure" metric to determine which apps are dangerous.

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[drajitsh]

My Samsung galaxy note 3 doesn't have the verify apps options. Am I missing it or it is really absent. I went into the security settings and it is simply not there. I'm running android 5 with security patch version 2016-08-01

 

[lun471k]

@Drajitsh this must be a feature in the latest version, which is 7+ (7.1.1 on my Nexus 5X).

 

[MrMojoRisin]

@Drajitsh - the verify apps feature has been around for a while. I'm still running version 4.4, and the verify apps option is there, under settings - security.