Android is a fairly secure operating system, but sometimes there are problems, even with the Play Store. And now Google has removed two photography apps from its store that had malware in them. We tell you the details.
Two apps that were gaining popularity in the Google store have been removed due to malware. The apps in question were Sun Pro Beauty Camera y Funny Sweet Beauty Selfie.
Apps removed from the Play Store due to malware
The two apps have been removed from the Play Store due to malware. These applications invaded your Android system with ads, in addition to causing major battery drains. Both are very annoying and clearly affect the experience of the system with your mobile phone.
Also they asked for more permissions than a photography and selfie app would need. He even got access to record the voice without the user's permission (in addition to apps that did not allow making video) and full-screen advertisements without opening the application.
With this the controversy of the security of the Play Store is served, a controversy that is renewed every few months. And it is that not about a month ago, Google removed from its app store about 85 applications that contained malware of some kind. Which is why in recent months the Play Store has been harshly criticized.
Google Play Protect, the antivirus and Android "protector", which applies to both the system and the Play Store, is more effectively detecting apps with malware, but it seems that it cannot immediately deal with all apps . Something normal, since millions of apps are housed in the Google store.
Although Google is doing a good job filtering the quality of its applications, having downgraded almost a million fewer apps in a year. We currently have almost three million apps in the Play Store, while in March 2018 there were more than three and a half million applications.
Most of the apps on the Play Store are safe. But if you want to make sure you don't have problems, first of all try to look at the amount of permissions that the application asks for, that tends to give away a lot to certain applications. If you see that it asks for access to the camera or contacts when the app does not need it, it may be a malicious application.
Have you been affected by these apps?