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klondike

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Google on the back foot
« on: Feb 19, 2021, 08:32:10 AM »
I received an email today telling me how the Play store app protects me and scans my phone daily and links to
https://www.android.com/safety/

Now why would they send that? I don't recall anything from them before. Then I remembered a story a week or so back about malware apps in the play store stock

https://nakedsecurity.sophos.com/2020/02/06/android-pulls-24-dangerous-malware-filled-apps-from-play-store/

Android users: got a mobile app named Weather Forecast?

If so, you should squash it like a bug. Google’s Play Store has already swatted it, along with 23 other vermin apps, all of which have cumulatively been downloaded more than 382 million times.

Their commonalities: they all come from a Chinese parent company that’s tucked behind a handful of app developers, and they all have a penchant to ask for ‘dangerous’ permissions, harvest data and send it back to Chinese servers, sneakily launch browser windows and click on ads, and/or sign you up for pricey premium phone numbers.

Sounds like those dastardly Chinese are experts in spreading viruses of all types.
The government are considering advising that you wear a face mask when operating an Android phone in their next update.
So long and thanks for all the fish

Michael Rolls

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Re: Google on the back foot
« Reply #1 on: Feb 19, 2021, 09:08:55 AM »
And social distance from it
Mike
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