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A new malware particularly tough and intrusive, would have hidden behind over 20,000 Android applications.
Posted November 9, 2015 – 8:22 Stéphane Ficca
If Google several months ago decided to regain control of its Play Store application store to try to avoid the profusion Pirates of applications and other viruses of all kinds, it seems that the Android system still suffers from a few flaws. Indeed, a new “malware” is currently cracking down on some Android smartphones, a syphilitic application that takes the form of popular applications (and safe) like Facebook, Twitter or Snapchat. The latter does not conceal only within these few applications, according to security expert Lookout , the virus would have taken the form of 20 000 applications!
A new particularly tenacious malware, which would take pleasure to display numerous advertisements on the infected smartphone screen, leading to other downloads them … Also pox. Unable to remove the virus by simple means, since the only way to deal with them would be to replace the memory of his terminal.
It is important to emphasize here that the applications infected by this new virus n have not been identified in the official store Play Store, but come well Third shops, unmonitored by the giant web. We can not say it enough, but here’s proof again that it is imperative to go through the official Play Store to avoid this kind of inconvenience.
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