There's a new list of malicious Android apps. These apps reported by PhoneArena includes the ones caught red-handed by various security researchers engaging in data and money-stealing tricks. While most of these apps have been removed from the official Google Play Store, users still need to remove them from their phones. Why you need to be extra careful is because some of these apps boasts of 50,000-plus downloads globally and 4.8-star user rating. Here's the list of these dangerous apps.
These digital Trojan horses have the potential to steal sensitive data from your phone, such as financial information. Known as SpyLoan apps, these problematic apps have been prevalent in Google's Play Store — and some have been discovered in Apple's App Store as well, Forbes reported last month.
These digital Trojan horses have the potential to steal sensitive data from your phone, such as financial information. Known as SpyLoan apps, these problematic apps have been prevalent in Google's Play Store — and some have been discovered in Apple's App Store as well, Forbes reported last month.
These harmful apps are sometimes called malware. It warns you about potentially harmful apps. It may deactivate or remove harmful apps from your device. It warns you about detected apps that violate our Unwanted Software Policy by hiding or misrepresenting important information.
Old apps you no longer use (also called zombie apps) can present a security risk because you might not have updated your privacy settings on them. Android users can go into the Google Play Store, select “My Apps and Games” and sort them by “Last Used” to see the oldest ones.
Every little bit of storage space matters if you're getting close to the capacity. Remember that deleting messages won't be a one-time fix as future text messages will cause that space to fill right back up over time.
Should you need it later, you can easily turn it back on with a single tap on that same App Info screen. Disabling reduces the risk of data leakage, but does nothing to save storage space — unfortunately, the disabled app continues to take up memory on your phone.
The reason why using Force Stop is recommended when trying to fix a misbehaving app is 1) it kills the currently running instance of that app and 2) it means that the app will no longer be accessing any of its cache files.
Greenify is the best application killer for Android that makes your device work better and last longer on one charge. It does this by detecting background apps and processes and putting them to sleep.
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use a strong password on your phone, it's a good idea to delete any apps from your phone that are obsolete for your life now. Your device will also run faster if unused apps and files are deleted. Most phones will list when you last visited each app.
Dangerous permissions are higher-risk permissions (such as READ_CALENDAR ) that grant requesting apps access to private user data, or control over a device, which can negatively impact the user.
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