Hi folks, I recently bought one of the eee transformer tablets and it is very nice, however I now find myself leary of the android app market place due to an article I read recently where a bunch of apps were pulled because some....bad people... had downloaded the original apps, added in malware and then uploaded them again, sometimes as free versions of the original app. This would then, when installed, harvest data, passwords etc and pass it back through the net.

The problem is in part that these devices come sans firewall and with limited security (yes I know you get a view of what permissions are required, but there's a "may contain nuts" approach in the labelling and even the most mild app seems to want a heck of lot of permissions).

In addition Google lost a large chunk of personal data recently which makes me mistrust it's marketplace account feature.

Am I being paranoid or is there a simple solution to this that peeps in the know can point me at?