Comment by dandare
9 years ago
One could argue to the contrary; The existence (and apparent success) of scam apps like this is a clear evidence your iPhone could use a 3rd party "virus scanner" - one that would protect you from malicious "virus scanners" :p
Can they even work? It depends if iOS provides a public API for getting a list of installed apps
No. The only way would be to check "openURL" for known ones, but that's limited. Or from some webserver update a list of known scam ones and just tell them to uninstall them.
Twitter does something shady to get a list of the installed apps on the device.
http://danielamitay.com/blog/2011/2/16/how-to-detect-install...
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