&gt; The closest you came was saying that <i>&quot;Actual &quot;take over your computer&quot; malware doesn&#x27;t exist in either the Play Store or the App Store.&quot;</i> but this is directly contradicted by this story from just yesterday: <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.slashgear.com&#x2F;viking-horde-malware-uses-google-pl.." rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.slashgear.com&#x2F;viking-horde-malware-uses-google-pl...</a>. (plenty of other sites covering this too)<p>That link says these two things:<p>&gt; There&#x27;s a new piece of malware in the wild, and it&#x27;s turning phones and tablets alike into a part of a large botnet.<p>This is use of both the ability to execute software within Android&#x27;s sandbox along with the ability to transfer data using HTTP&#x2F;HTTPS to send data on the Internet. That&#x27;s what a botnet is.<p>&gt;  While unrooted devices are susceptible to the actions listed above, rooted devices are at a greater risk. On these devices, additional software is installed that allows it to execute any code remotely. What&#x27;s more, it uses your root access privileges to make it difficult, if not impossible to manually remove the malware.<p>This doesn&#x27;t affect anyone who&#x27;s using Android as either distributed by Google, or by anyone who&#x27;s distributing an Android-branded phone.<p>That is to say, unless you purposely go <i>very far</i> out of your way to install <i>custom system software</i> that <i>deliberately weakens</i> critical Android security features -thus putting your Android device pretty squarely in the realm of PC-level security-, then there is <i>no</i> software in the Play Store that will take over your Android device.<p>Pointing to <i>that</i> and claiming that it&#x27;s evidence of a failure of the Play Store is like winding your seatbelt tightly around your neck (rather than securing the buckle to its clasp), driving at highway speeds straight into a bridge support, and then blaming the seatbelt when your head pops off of your neck. :)