Avast confirms it tagged Google app as malware on Android phones

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• Crogdor@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  tl;dr: It’s a false positive. The headline makes it sound like an intentional classification, but that’s not the case. Also, they fixed the problem two days ago.

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  • dontcarebear@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Sounds like avast’s heuristics are spot on, though. They just needed to exclude a corpo made malware.

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    • AceSLS@lemmy.sdf.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      It’s google, it’s okay when they do it /s

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    • Lord_ToRA@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Google bad

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• jacktherippah@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Avast itself is malware to me.

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• padjakkels@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Click bait much?

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• ChaoticNeutralCzech@feddit.de ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  If you think Avast is based, think again. They are some of the most annoying AV software (excluding the pure scams of course).

  Rejected Bugemos Comic
  “When I finish writing this, I will put the markers in the box.”
  “A meeting is in progress.”
  “I’m sweetening my coffee.”
  “My back itches.”
  “Somebody is standing behind me.”
  “This phone is ringing.”

  Internal tests by Balast Inc. did not confirm users’ complaints about too many notifications.

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  • RazorsLedge@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Think avast is based on what?

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    • dukk@programming.dev ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      based

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