{"id":52025,"date":"2022-08-21T15:02:35","date_gmt":"2022-08-21T15:02:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/if-you-can-locate-these-35-apps-on-your-android-phone-delete-them-immediately\/"},"modified":"2022-08-21T15:02:35","modified_gmt":"2022-08-21T15:02:35","slug":"if-you-can-locate-these-35-apps-on-your-android-phone-delete-them-immediately","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/if-you-can-locate-these-35-apps-on-your-android-phone-delete-them-immediately\/","title":{"rendered":"If you can locate these 35 apps on your Android phone, delete them immediately"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<div>Yes, (adventurous) ladies and gents, we&#8217;re afraid it&#8217;s time for another periodic Android security checkup.  While no one really enjoys to perform a thorough sweep of every app installed on their mobile phones once <!-- HTMLTagInstance html-tag-ca38491d-6440-4538-89a3-939c977ba76a -->every few weeks or so in search for all kinds of different malware, the truth is <!-- HTMLTagInstance html-tag-6789cd2e-806e-4cc0-924d-24bdbb5cd7ac -->Google isn&#8217;t doing a very good job of keeping you out of harm&#8217;s way.<\/div>\n<div>That&#8217;s why you should always look over your own (digital) shoulder and pay attention to each and every new report put together by firms like <!-- HTMLTagInstance html-tag-92624179-0a10-4a6b-b5bb-61be3f3b3318 -->Bitdefender to know exactly what <!-- HTMLTagInstance html-tag-b82b1476-a497-4be6-be72-4853011cbd4a -->you must uninstall if you care about your money, the privacy of your data, and your Android phone&#8217;s general well-being and overall performance.<\/div>\n<h2>So what&#8217;s the problem this time around?<\/h2>\n<div>Thankfully, you&#8217;re not dealing with yet another <!-- HTMLTagInstance html-tag-72c7d96b-941a-4b97-9e94-57018387d07d -->Extensive Joker-spreading campaign or any sort of <!-- HTMLTagInstance html-tag-020c66bf-5662-4790-a0ea-8f541f05893a -->vicious banking trojan focused primarily on stealing your hard-earned dough.  Instead, what we&#8217;re looking at today is some good old fashioned adware, with its fairly innocuous-sounding target being to inundate your mobile device with commercials.<\/div>\n<div><!-- ImageTagInstance gallery-0d24b866-bec7-4e07-b657-227c9d87b009 --><\/p>\n<div id=\"gallery-0d24b866-bec7-4e07-b657-227c9d87b009\" class=\"single-image-container\" style=\"margin: 24px auto; width: 100%\">\n<div class=\"gallery-item\">\n<picture style=\"padding-top: 66.666666666667%\"><source media=\"(max-width: 350px)\" srcset=\"https:\/\/m-cdn.phonearena.com\/images\/articles\/392159-350\/Danger-sign.jpg\"><source media=\"(min-width: 351px) and (max-width: 500px)\" srcset=\"https:\/\/m-cdn.phonearena.com\/images\/articles\/392159-500\/Danger-sign.jpg\"><source media=\"(min-width: 501px) and (max-width: 800px)\" srcset=\"https:\/\/m-cdn.phonearena.com\/images\/articles\/392159-800\/Danger-sign.jpg\"><noscript><img src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/m-cdn.phonearena.com\/images\/articles\/392159-image\/Danger-sign.jpg?ssl=1\" alt=\"If you can locate these 35 apps on your Android phone, delete them immediately\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\"\/><\/noscript><\/source><\/source><\/source><\/picture>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Of course, we&#8217;re not talking the kind of TV spots that would sometimes win awards after premiering at the Super Bowl, but annoying, highly intrusive, user experience-harming, and smartphone performance-slowing advertisements you can&#8217;t really ignore or very Easily close down to get back to your gaming or other day-to-day mobile operations.<\/p>\n<p>What&#8217;s (far) worse is that said ads, delivered through the framework of legitimate-looking apps downloaded from the Play Store, can directly link to more harmful malware.  Basically, if you&#8217;re not careful, you can end up bombarded with pesky ads <span style=\"font-style: italic;\">and<\/span> ripped off by other malicious pieces of software you might be fooled into installing to try to get rid of the initial ads (which obviously won&#8217;t happen either).<\/p>\n<h2>These are the latest apps you must delete ASAP<\/h2>\n<div>\n<ul>\n<li>Walls light &#8211; Wallpapers Pack<\/li>\n<li>Big Emoji &#8211; Keyboard<\/li>\n<li>Grad Wallpapers &#8211; 3D Backdrops<\/li>\n<li>Engine Wallpapers &#8211; Live &#038; 3D<\/li>\n<li>Stock Wallpapers &#8211; 4K &#038; HD<\/li>\n<li>EffectMania &#8211; Photo Editor<\/li>\n<li>Art Filter &#8211; Deep Photoeffect<\/li>\n<li>Fast Emoji Keyboard<\/li>\n<li>Create Sticker for Whatsapp<\/li>\n<li>Math Solver &#8211; Camera Helper<\/li>\n<li>Photopix Effects &#8211; Art Filter<\/li>\n<li>Led Theme &#8211; Colorful Keyboard<\/li>\n<li>Keyboard &#8211; Fun Emoji, Sticker<\/li>\n<li>Smart Wifi<\/li>\n<li>My GPS Location<\/li>\n<li>Image Warp Camera<\/li>\n<li>Art Girls Wallpaper HD<\/li>\n<li>Cat Simulator<\/li>\n<li>Smart QR Creator<\/li>\n<li>Colorize Old Photo<\/li>\n<li>GPS Location Finder<\/li>\n<li>Girls Art Wallpaper<\/li>\n<li>Smart QR Scanner<\/li>\n<li>GPS Location Maps<\/li>\n<li>Volume Control<\/li>\n<li>Secret Horoscope<\/li>\n<li>Smart GPS Location<\/li>\n<li>Animated Sticker Master<\/li>\n<li>Personality Charging Show<\/li>\n<li>Sleep Sounds<\/li>\n<li>QR Creator<\/li>\n<li>Media Volume Slider<\/li>\n<li>Secret Astrology<\/li>\n<li>Colorize Photos<\/li>\n<li>Phi 4K Wallpaper &#8211; Anime HD<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<h2>But wait, there&#8217;s one more problem<\/h2>\n<div>While the ad-serving behavior of the no less than 35 apps listed above may not sound as dangerous as what <!-- HTMLTagInstance html-tag-7fc7d14f-2b8c-4300-b376-80bcc4cdd459 -->other types of malware were found culpable of <!-- HTMLTagInstance html-tag-84b300f0-4af6-40a0-a649-b0cdf5e234eb -->in the recent past, the sneakiness of these newly discovered bad boys may well be unmatched.<\/div>\n<div>That&#8217;s because many of them can change their names and icons either after the initial installation process or a later update, disguising themselves as the &#8220;Settings&#8221; menu on your phone.  That can obviously make it hard to locate and delete these apps once they fulfil their entire malicious potential, also hiding from the list of the most recently used apps on your device.<\/div>\n<div><!-- ImageTagInstance gallery-4b7279bf-5428-4a5a-bf6f-708825a2f15c --><\/p>\n<div id=\"gallery-4b7279bf-5428-4a5a-bf6f-708825a2f15c\" class=\"single-image-container\" style=\"margin: 24px auto; width: 100%\">\n<div class=\"gallery-item\">\n<picture style=\"padding-top: 66.666666666667%\"><source media=\"(max-width: 350px)\" srcset=\"https:\/\/m-cdn.phonearena.com\/images\/articles\/392158-350\/GPS-Location-Finder-malware.jpg\"><source media=\"(min-width: 351px) and (max-width: 500px)\" srcset=\"https:\/\/m-cdn.phonearena.com\/images\/articles\/392158-500\/GPS-Location-Finder-malware.jpg\"><source media=\"(min-width: 501px) and (max-width: 800px)\" srcset=\"https:\/\/m-cdn.phonearena.com\/images\/articles\/392158-800\/GPS-Location-Finder-malware.jpg\"><img src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/m-cdn.phonearena.com\/images\/articles\/392158-image\/GPS-Location-Finder-malware.jpg?ssl=1\" alt=\"This is just one pretty popular app you need to get rid of right now!  - If you can locate these 35 apps on your Android phone, delete them immediately\" class=\"lazy\" data-id=\"392158\" loading=\"lazy\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\"\/><noscript><img src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/m-cdn.phonearena.com\/images\/articles\/392158-image\/GPS-Location-Finder-malware.jpg?ssl=1\" alt=\"This is just one pretty popular app you need to get rid of right now!  - If you can locate these 35 apps on your Android phone, delete them immediately\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\"\/><\/noscript><\/source><\/source><\/source><\/picture>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p>This is just one pretty popular app you need to get rid of right now!<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div>For what it&#8217;s worth, <!-- HTMLTagInstance html-tag-0f37f731-7921-47fc-972f-a20cf365e9a3 -->Google appears to have reacted far more promptly to this threat than others in the last few months, kicking all 35 ad-spreading titles out of the Play Store by the time of publication.  That means the malicious apps can no longer improve their victim total, which however already exceeds two million Android users.<\/div>\n<p>The only ways to diminish that tally are to find one of the above names and uninstall them or figure out which of your two &#8220;Settings&#8221; apps is bogus and can safely be deleted from your phone to get rid of intrusive ads forever&#8230; or until next time something like this happens again.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><script>!function(f,b,e,v,n,t,s){if(f.fbq)return;n=f.fbq=function(){n.callMethod?n.callMethod.apply(n,arguments):n.queue.push(arguments)};if(!f._fbq)f._fbq=n;n.push=n;n.loaded=!0;n.version='2.0';n.queue=[];t=b.createElement(e);t.async=!0;t.src=v;s=b.getElementsByTagName(e)[0];s.parentNode.insertBefore(t,s)}(window,document,'script','https:\/\/connect.facebook.net\/en_US\/fbevents.js');fbq('init','950812218873147');fbq('track','PageView');<\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yes, (adventurous) ladies and gents, we&#8217;re afraid it&#8217;s time for another periodic Android security checkup. While no one really enjoys to perform a thorough sweep of every app installed on their mobile phones once every few weeks or so in search for all kinds of different malware, the truth is Google isn&#8217;t doing a very &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/if-you-can-locate-these-35-apps-on-your-android-phone-delete-them-immediately\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">If you can locate these 35 apps on your Android phone, delete them immediately<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","spay_email":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":58348,"url":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/the-true-face-of-android-wears-a-verizon-ball-cap\/","url_meta":{"origin":52025,"position":0},"title":"The &#8216;true&#8217; face of Android wears a Verizon ball cap","date":"August 27, 2022","format":false,"excerpt":"Over the years, a lot of words have been written about how Samsung is the real face of Android \u2014 I've done it myself. 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