Lee Duna@lemmy.nz to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 2 years agoAvast confirms it tagged Google app as malware on Android phoneswww.bleepingcomputer.comexternal-linkmessage-square10linkfedilinkarrow-up1143arrow-down127
arrow-up1116arrow-down1external-linkAvast confirms it tagged Google app as malware on Android phoneswww.bleepingcomputer.comLee Duna@lemmy.nz to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 2 years agomessage-square10linkfedilink
minus-squareCrogdor@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up82arrow-down1·2 years agotl;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.
minus-squaredontcarebear @lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up52arrow-down5·2 years agoSounds like avast’s heuristics are spot on, though. They just needed to exclude a corpo made malware.
minus-squareAceSLS@lemmy.sdf.orglinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up9arrow-down1·2 years agoIt’s google, it’s okay when they do it /s
minus-squareMonkderZweite@feddit.chlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·2 years agoNee, Google Services. Eeh, Play Services.
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.
Sounds like avast’s heuristics are spot on, though. They just needed to exclude a corpo made malware.
It’s google, it’s okay when they do it /s
Google bad
Nee, Google Services. Eeh, Play Services.