Google Play Protect isn’t as effective as its peers, according to six-month long test.
Google’s Play Protect security service has fared poorly in an endurance test of Android security apps. With the number of malware -laden malicious apps on the rise, AV-Test pitted 15 security apps to rate their ability to fend off such dubious apps. “Included in the test as the 15th app in the mix was Google Play Protect, the protection app embedded in Android…. But the endurance test revealed that this service does not provide particularly good security: every other security app offers better protection than Google Play Protect,” says AV-Test.
