Watch out, T-Mobile G1 owners: a dodgy app that appears to be wiping phone memories has made its way onto the Android Market.
The open source nature of Android has come back to bite Google, with what may be the first piece of malware finding its way onto the Android Market.
MemoryUp is supposedly designed to clean up the T-Mobile G1’s memory, but it’s being a bit too vigorous and wiping the internal memory of the G1 as well as the inserted SD card in some cases.
One user, “kr33p1n”, complains that it “Doesn’t work at all erased my phone numbers and froze my phone,” and many others seem to be in agreement, with the program clocking up several hundred one star ratings already.
So, a devious Windows Mobile, BlackBerry Storm or Palm Pre employee behind it? Or just some jerk cranking out cackhanded code? We don’t know, but all of a sudden, Apple’s closed App Store and opaque approval process seem very enticing.
(Via Geek.com)
