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How does Google Authenticator prevent malware on my phone from approving a login?


That's outside the scope of the tool. You're supposed to prevent malware from compromising your phone. At the very least this scheme requires an attacker to implant malware on your phone as opposed to just monitoring/intercepting communications to and from it.




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