These articles do nothing but cause hysteria where there is none.
There are over 100,000 Android apps by who knows how many developers.
3 developers were distributing malicious applications using a “root” exploit to do their dirty deeds (of which no one knows yet).
If you look at the names of the apps, half of them are in Chinese. The other half no one in their right mind would download anyway unless they are in the dungeon of the Android Marketplace.
Nonetheless, it will bring out the “THIS is why I don’t have a smartphone!” curmudgeons and the “iPhone has no viruses because we get what Steve tells us we can get” fanboys.
*Highfive*