Avast itself is malware to me.
Avast confirms it tagged Google app as malware on Android phones
Submitted 7 months ago by throws_lemy@lemmy.nz to technology@lemmy.world
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jacktherippah@lemmy.world 7 months ago
padjakkels@lemmy.world 7 months ago
Click bait much?
ChaoticNeutralCzech@feddit.de 7 months ago
If you think Avast is based, think again. They are some of the most annoying AV software (excluding the pure scams of course).
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RazorsLedge@lemmy.world 7 months ago
Think avast is based on what?
dukk@programming.dev 7 months ago
Crogdor@lemmy.world 7 months 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.
dontcarebear@lemmy.world 7 months ago
Sounds like avast’s heuristics are spot on, though. They just needed to exclude a corpo made malware.
AceSLS@lemmy.sdf.org 7 months ago
It’s google, it’s okay when they do it /s
Lord_ToRA@lemmy.world 7 months ago
Google bad