As I'm sure they'll pull these when the right people at google are alerted to the problem.
But there will be more instances of this and I think that there simply ought to be a strict procedure to report malware so it can be responded to quickly rather than to lay the blame with google.
Then if such a procedure is in place and if google would consistently refuse to pull clearly identified malware you'd get in to a situation where you could lay some blame.
As it is I find it premature to do this, the Android application market is still developing as are the procedures to deal with applications that behave in 'unexpected' ways, the first competent user that installed this stuff should have had a way to provide feedback about the perceived security risks.
Having anything submitted to the 'Themes' category not include the permission to view your call history is automatable.
> I'm sure they'll pull these when the right people at google are alerted to the problem.
I've ported about 15 different apps to Google which were blatant cases of IP theft, and one of search results gaming. They're all still there, with zero response. They might be better with handling malware but I doubt it.
But there will be more instances of this and I think that there simply ought to be a strict procedure to report malware so it can be responded to quickly rather than to lay the blame with google.
Then if such a procedure is in place and if google would consistently refuse to pull clearly identified malware you'd get in to a situation where you could lay some blame.
As it is I find it premature to do this, the Android application market is still developing as are the procedures to deal with applications that behave in 'unexpected' ways, the first competent user that installed this stuff should have had a way to provide feedback about the perceived security risks.