30,000 Android users fooled into buying bogus anti-virus app at $3.99 a pop

First appearing in the Google Play Store on March 28th, Virus Shield soon became the third most popular paid app in the market. Priced at $3.99, Virus Shield was supposed to search through your Android smartphone, looking for viruses, all without affecting the battery life on the handset. Android users ate it up. Bolstered by a number of five-star reviews, 30,000 paid subscribers had signed up after one week. As it turns out, all of these people were scammed.



So what did the developer, Deviant Solutions, claim that the app did? The description of the app claimed that it "Prevents harmful ...



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