: How are phones so resistant to virus’s but usually computers arent?
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Phone OSs were designed to be more locked down.
Firstly almost all software is installed through the official Google / Apple app store, who do vetting on the applications. It’s not like Windows where you are expected to run some random exe installer that you get from some website.
Secondly the apps themselves on mobiles are given less control of the device. The system files and application executable are kept completely separately and apps can’t touch those unless there is a serious security vulnerability found in the OS. Even basic stuff like writing to user files pops a permission request up.
On desktops (and especially Windows) because of backwards compatibility it’s usual to give apps almost full control of the system during install so a malicious program could change many system and other app files.
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