LibreAV detecting Aurora Store as malware?

Spare_inspection303

Not sure if it's just a false positive or not, apps that have been downloaded are coming up as safe. Does anyone have any advice on how to tell if this is legitimate or not? I did some searching and cannot find any information.

spring-onion

Drop that antivirus, it's not seen another release in over 1,5 years and the effectiveness of such apps is questionable at best.

The aurora store is well known and safe, all antiviruses may output false positives, this one specifically points it out on their github: https://github.com/projectmatris/antimalwareapp

Don't use ancient apps and limit permissions as much as you can, you'll be fine.

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spring-onion Don't use ancient apps

I guess Aurora store can also be called ancient since it requests the All files access for just storing APKs in a external folder

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As stated in the link below, antivirus isn't really a good approach to security because it relies on badness enumeration (trying to count all the "bad" software and block it or alert you). This is fundamentally unsustainable because new malware is created every day and it's impossible to maintain an accurate and up-to-date list of all malware.

Android's approach is much better because apps are sandboxed and restricted to only accessing the sensitive data that you explicitly give them access to.

https://discuss.grapheneos.org/d/519-antivirus