​​ A free and open source anti-malware LibreAV is an attempt | Lifehack of the day

​​ A free and open source anti-malware

LibreAV is an attempt to detect malware in Android devices by utilising machine learning approach.

LibreAV uses permissions and intent-filters to detect malicious apps. While scanning, it loads the machine learning model and extracts permissions and intents from the installed applications on the user's device. These extracted features are then fed to the machine learning model in the form of a vector. The machine learning model returns a prediction score between 0 and 1 that denote the degree of maliciousness of the scanned application.

Features:

* Real time scan - Automatically scan new app installations;
* On device inference - Zero network traffic;
* Open-source - The source code is distributed under GNU GPLv3;
* Lightweight antivirus - Do not consume too much resources;
* 100% free and No ads.

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