Did Virus Shield Really Have NO Anti-Virus Functionality?

I got a good laugh recently when I found out that Virus Shield, one of the top paid apps in the Android (Google Play) store for a bit, turned out to be a scam. People paid $3.99 for it and all it apparently did was displayed a small icon indicating an infected status and then a slightly different icon indicating a clean status. Funny.

However, I don’t think it’s COMPLETELY accurate that the scam app had no anti-virus function. After all, didn’t the app take up storage space? Didn’t it utilize processor and memory resources? At least some? Wouldn’t that storage space and processor/memory resources therefore not be available for viruses?

As such, didn’t the scam app have some, miniscule anti-virus effect? Sure, it took up resources a virus might otherwise be able to utilize. Sure, you could have done the same thing with pictures of cats wearing people clothes. However, it didn’t have absolutely NO anti-virus functionality.

After all, we need to be fair.