Crack is Cheap…Crack is Wack.

I’m not slacking, I’ve just been busy at Betanews trying to adhere to the prime directives.

You know…serving the public trust, protecting the innocent, and upholding the law…

That’s how I do.

But I’m gonna do better and spread my work out among a couple of other blogs soon. For now, here’s a look at the two different builds of AVG’s Android antivirus software: phone and tablet.

AVG did a pretty good smartphone survey in February and they shared the results with me at CTIA when I shot this quick video. It was kind of ridiculous, actually. Like many security surveys, it was sort of geared to show how ignorant most people are.

Of nearly 30,000 smartphone users that participated in the survey, 25% DIDN’T EVEN KNOW WHAT OS THEY WERE USING!

That was more than any other single OS named. iOS had 24%, RIM BBOS had 19%, Windows Mobile had 12% and Android had only 9%.

51% said they had, at some point, accidentally signed up for some product or service without knowing it cost money.

59% said they were unsure if they had ever shared their location via photo metadata.

53% said they were unsure if their “confidential payment information” was being shared through third party apps.

AVG is free/freemium. While I’m not personally convinced of the utility of smartphone security apps against good old fashioned conscientious usage, you can’t really argue with their intentions and their price point.

Stay Tuned, I’ll be posting a review of Mikrosonic’s MPC for Android that goes by the name SPC.