Last week Google detected some 21 rogue apps running around in its Android App Market, and sent them to Vacation Island. But what of the 50,000 copies already downloaded by unwitting users? That’s what Google’s dealing with this week, by utilizing Android’s remote kill switch to delete them over the air.

But that’s not all, because this time the company isn’t just removing offending packages, but also installing new code. The “Android Market Security Tool March 2011″ will be remotely added to affected handsets to undo the exploit and keep it from sending your data out, as well as make you wonder just how much remote control Google has over our phones.

In peaceful times, we doubt the credibility of Google having such power on its hands, but it’s a good thing that Google is exercising its authority over its creation for the better good of humanity. The good thing is that Google is emailing you that it’s deleting and patching an app that’s exploiting a backdoor, by using another backdoor method of its own.

SOURCE via Google