Lookout predict that next year there will be 18.4 million Android devices by malware infection

Recently, the security company Lookout released in 2013 Mobile Device Security Threat Predictions report. Which, it pointed out that next year there will be 18.4 million Android users infected by malicious software.Lookout and did not disclose the total number of its forecast for next year tablet pc harder to really understand the proportion of infected users in all user.
Of course, we can also infer their own. It is reported that in September this year, Google Chairman Eric Schmidt said the world will have 1.3 million Android devices were activated. In addition, he said the world has 480 million Android devices (September 2012).
Schmidt this argument until the end of 2013 (calculated in accordance with 456 days), the total number of global Android device will reach 1,072,800,000 units. Therefore, infection Android devices accounted for 1.72% of the total. Of course, the reality is that Android devices activated rate will not always maintain the kind of standard as Schmidt said, the downward trend is likely to appear, so the actual infection rate is higher than 1.72%.