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Yeah, also known as a feature that has been around for years but now is being shoved in my face whithout providing any additonal benifit. (I guess I am supposed to feel safer?)

https://www.android.com/security-center/

This page says 8 billion a day, which seems inconsistent. Also how many apps are there on the Play Store to scan that many?

It checks the apps on the device. Considering the amount of Android devices with Google Play Services that number seems consistent.

Yeah, I can't even imagine there being 8 billion apps in total. Like, that's more than there are humans on Earth. If every 50th person would be an app developer, then every app developer would still have to publish 50 apps all by themselves. I doubt that even the studios that just rebrand and rerelease their apps over and over again get to such a quota.

Google has rebranded viruses as "PHAs" or "potentially-harmful applications". They don't want anyone to know that Android devices get viruses. ;)

Phones don't get viruses.