Here's the all-important asterisk being omitted from Check Point's thinly veiled publicity campaign for its product: A "mobile threat detection and mitigration solution" is already present on practically all of those 900 million Android devices. It's a native part of the Android operating system called Verify Apps, and it's been present in the software since 2012.
Verify Apps scans your device for potentially problematic programs both as you download new apps and continually over time. It'll stop you from installing any app that could compromise your device's security and will also warn you if an existing app starts doing anything suspicious.
Verify Apps is present on every Android device running version 2.3 or higher -- which, according to Google's latest platform measurements, accounts for a whopping 99.9% of active Android devices. And Google has confirmed the system is already watching out for any "Quadrooter"-related mischief -- none of which, it's worth noting, has actually been observed in the real world.
