Yes, AVG on an HTC. Mobile phone viruses and malware is becoming an ever growing industry. That sort of defies the Mac and Andriod myth as opposed to Windows as being a virus target. This also justifies the theory that the most popular targets are the most popular operating systems.

However, there do not seem to be user to root hacks on nix based systems like there are hacks at the administrative level with windows from user accounts.

Read this -- it's the Apps you download that do get root access (the gates of Hades).
http://www.androidcentral.com/root