Research carried out by AV-Comparatives has shown that almost over 60 percent of antivirus applications that protect Android devices does not meet basic requirements.

Approximately 250 applications were taken under the microscope and 170 of them did not meet the minimum safety requirements. The tested antiviruses did not offer any sort of protection, but only burdened the processors with additional tasks. These apps showed that individual programs installed on the device are harmful, while in fact they did not contain any malicious code.

According to the ComputerWorld, the above situation results from the fact that most of the tested antiviruses do not scan the code and only work based on obsolete lists.

Meanwhile, antivirus software from companies such as Kaspersky Lab, McAfee, Avast, Trend Micro and Symantec have made top of list in the study.