How to avoid malwareWith more and more developers joining in, the number of apps on the Play Store is increasing on a daily basis. New and attractive games, utility apps or entertainment apps, whatever their sort may be, all types of downloadable apps on the Play Store can include malware or scam. Now the question arises – how do you make sure you don’t download one of these bogus apps?The most annoying form of android scam is unnecessary advertisement. Your favorite app keeps giving you unwanted ads and you’re absolutely in no mood to download one of those ‘talking garbage cans’ no matter how much the ad emphasizes. If you can buy the app, it’s obviously the most effective solution. However, if you don’t have enough money to waste, then you need to do the following two things: Either delete the app (which would be a massive heartbreak) or absolutely NEVER click on those ads.
If you ever accidentally happen to click on one of the ads then prepare yourself for a bigger level of brain torture. Because clicking that ad will open a link on your browser either leading to some advertiser’s site or if you aren’t lucky, the link will automatically download malware.
Your apps keep hanging and your android’s processing speed keeps getting slower and slower – this is due to malware. Basically, malware is cancer for your phone.
Most apps contain ads which can be of two sorts; push notification or icon scam ads. Push alerts or push notifications are actually useful. Some apps require to keep running in the background. When you’re not using your phone and it suddenly lights up telling you you’ve got new email – that is push notification. But push notifications can also be maliciously used. When you believe you’re clicking on a product update notification, you may actually be enabling a service that will cost you money. Therefore, if you ever see an ‘update available’ notification from one of your apps, make sure it’s a legitimate update and the alert really is coming from the app instead of some scam-producing virus in your android.
The second kind of malicious ads are icon spam ads. When you see spammy icons appearing on your desktop which you don’t remember downloading at all, that means you’ve an app that’s producing icon spam. The app is probably linked to a network which makes these ads and that’s how they appear every dang time on your desktop no matter how much you try to you delete them.
Making sure an app isn’t a malware or scam is easy. The easiest way to avoid malware is to check the ratings and the number of downloads as well as the comments from other users. This gives you a better idea of what sort of experience the app will be giving you.
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