# Google play protect real-time scanning

**URL:** https://discuss.privacyguides.net/t/google-play-protect-real-time-scanning/15562
**Category:** General
**Created:** 2023-12-12T18:22:33Z
**Posts:** 5

## Post 1 by @pika — 2023-12-12T18:22:33Z

Google play store now does a real time scanning for apps installed from other than playstore.  
This news was also covered in one of the Surveillance report podcast by henry and nate a month ago.  
Its now being rolled out to all i guess i can see it taking effect.

 ![Screenshot_20231130-111247~2](//forum-uploads.privacyguidesusercontent.com/original/2X/b/b577529e4857905d85398a07c3c47c8da66d08aa.png)  
Also you can see is it gives an option to “install without scanning”. Though there is not much to lose if you allow it to scan. I hope they would have good antivirus models to detect any suspicious apps.  
Would be interesting to see how this effects the security of android comapred to a privacy focused OS like graphene OS which may run totally without play services.

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## Post 2 by @jonah — 2023-12-12T19:02:50Z

> [@pika](#):
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> Also you can see is it gives an option to “install without scanning”.

Cool, I was wondering about that.

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## Post 3 by @lepras — 2023-12-14T17:37:33Z

could be great for detecting malware but if you are sourcing the APK’s correctly I don’t see any use-case tbh.

btw ANON/NERO!!!, seems nice stuff. I recently got introduced to that, will check them soon.

Reviews?

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## Post 4 by @pika — 2023-12-14T18:10:54Z

i didn’t try it myself much as it works only on tor. But nice to have more monero clients.  
though i am much more concerned about security of crypto wallets.  
Scanning is still better than not , apks could be spoofed, there have been instances , where official websites have been hacked and malicious packages uploaded as genuine.  
So unless you do the task of matching the fingerprint every time , there is a risk of threats from mailicious apps

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## Post 5 by @anon21666177 — 2023-12-14T18:14:28Z

Antiviruses in general are enumerating badness though.