Linked by Thom Holwerda on Mon 22nd Apr 2013 23:00 UTC
"The family of Android malware that slipped past security defenses and infiltrated Google Play is more widespread than previously thought. New evidence shows it was folded into three additional apps and has been operating for at least 10 months, according to security researchers." Google removed most of it, but not before it was installed anywhere between 2 to 9 million times - finally some figures from Google itself, and not scaremongering by antivirus companies. At 9 million, that's 1.2% of all Android devices sold.
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What kind of stuff did they add?
Most cracked games came with cracking crew intros and often "trainers" (cheat options).
It's hard to imagine any virus kind of software having much effect. It wouldn't survive a reset or power cycle, which you had to do when changing software. Also there was no boot sector or hard disk to infect.
The Commodore Amiga could catch a number of viruses.