https://www.theverge.com/2017/9/15/16314034/apple-developer-guidelines-update-scam-anti-virus-apps-banned >Fake “virus scanning” apps have plagued the iOS App Store for a while, and Apple seems to finally be banning them once and for all in updated developer guidelines it published this week, via 9to5Mac. >The updated developer guidelines, compiled by Paul Hudson over at Hacking With Swift, now includes a ban on apps that claim to “including content or services that it does not actually offer” — something that includes any iOS virus scanning apps, seeing as it wasn’t possible to scan for viruses on iOS with third party apps, since iOS’s sandboxing prevents applications from directly interacting with each other or the core of the iOS operating system.