Do you ever find yourself randomly scrolling through dozens of Play Store pages, sections, and categories looking for new useful or fun apps and games to install on your Android device? If so, you may want to occasionally take a little time to clean your phone of potentially malicious and invasive content as well.
The last threat
The worst thing about this particular set of naughty Android apps is that they are programmed to trick their users into believing that they don’t work or that they can’t be installed properly, removing their own startup icons shortly after downloading them to perform the uninstall process. unnecessarily difficult
But while its advertised functionality is often limited or non-existent, clandestine goals are clear, simple, and annoyingly effective: to bombard users with ads, as well as to divert web traffic to shady portals. That doesn’t sound very nice … or sure, though to be fair, the report doesn’t mention anything about this malware that attacks the integrity of your personal information or financial data.
The list (and the best ways to avoid future infections)
Still, you should absolutely check your phone’s home screen and the full list of apps currently installed on your device from the settings menu of any of these titles:
- Auto Picture Cut
- Color Call Flash
- Square Photo Blur
- Square Blur Photo
- Flash Magic Call
- Easy blur
- Image blur
- Auto Photo Blur
- Photo blur
- Photo Blur Master
- Super screen call
- Square Blur Master
- Square blur
- Smart Blur Photo
- Smart Photo Blur
- Super call flash
- Smart Call Flash
- Blur Photo Editor
- Blurred image
As you can see, there is a common theme in the names and descriptions of these apps, all of which were disguised as photo editors that allow you to blur different sections of images captured with your phone’s cameras.
Play Store reviews for Square Photo Blur app now removed
In addition to removing all of the above as soon as possible, you’ll want to pay extra attention the next time you download something developed by incomplete companies or “people” named Thomas Mary, Kirk Brian, or Davis Betty.
Random developer names like that should be your first red flag, often proving to be fake, while the number of 1-star reviews given to an app can be an obvious one of its true nature, even when accompanied by an equal or higher number of 5-star ratings. The latter group is also fake most of the time, and especially if many of the 1-star reviews mention things like limited functionality, random and aggressive ads, and a complicated uninstall process, maybe you should try to find a more reliable alternative.