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projectmatris / antimalwareapp

Anti-malware for Android using machine learning
https://www.projectmatris.tech/
GNU General Public License v3.0
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Publish on Play Store #76

Closed theshininginception closed 2 years ago

theshininginception commented 2 years ago

Hello,

Wouldn't it be great if LibreAV could be published on the Play Store to expand reach to users and provide an easier way to keep the app updated?

Thank you

projectmatris commented 2 years ago

It was published in the Play Store earlier. But they suspended it stating that LibreAV was not able to detect the EICAR ANTI MALWARE TESTFILE. The problem is that the EICAR test file is not real malware. It is for testing signature-based detection only. Since we do not use signature detection in our app, we can't detect it as malware. We tried to convince the Play Store team about this, but they said it was their policy to test all the antivirus apps with the EICAR test file and they won't be able to reinstate the suspended app.