Poll of the Day > can someone help? android related.

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avg detected malware, it says settings contains malware that could harm your device. it is installed in the system partition and cannot be uninstalled. instead you must deactivate the app from system settings.

i did a scan with malwarebytes as well but it didn't pick up anything, play protect doesn't either.

is this bad, and what do i do about it? please help.

ok now after updating the virus definition or whatever its called on avg, the malware is no longer detected, says i am protected. :/

anything to worry about do you think? thank you.

normal for virus scanners to occasionally give false positives

Sahuagin posted...

normal for virus scanners to occasionally give false positives

@sahuagin

oh thank you, yeah hadn't used that particular virus scanner in a long time and i didn't update it on the app before the scan and it had said that. then after the update scanned again and there was no longer any mention of it.

i just get nervous of the phone having malware or spyware because there are signs that the battery drains fast and its a bit slow at times, but i got to realize it came out the box like that and its a really shitty phone. my mom has something called q link which is a free phone service i believe from having EBT, so i use it and they only let you use very meh type of phones.

i should know that i more than likely don't have malware/spyware, i don't download anything, don't open spam texts, i use firefox with ublock. the only thing i use that may be considered kind of but not really unsafe which i have been doing for years anyways is go on 3rd party anime sites.

bump.

I don't know how you would even manage to get a virus on your Android.

It's a very secure OS that sandboxes everything.