Lee Duna@lemmy.nz to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 11 months agoAvast confirms it tagged Google app as malware on Android phoneswww.bleepingcomputer.comexternal-linkmessage-square10fedilinkarrow-up1146arrow-down128
arrow-up1118arrow-down1external-linkAvast confirms it tagged Google app as malware on Android phoneswww.bleepingcomputer.comLee Duna@lemmy.nz to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 11 months agomessage-square10fedilink
minus-squareCrogdor@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up81arrow-down1·11 months 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-down6·11 months agoSounds like avast’s heuristics are spot on, though. They just needed to exclude a corpo made malware.
minus-squareAceSLS@lemmy.sdf.orglinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up9arrow-down1·11 months agoIt’s google, it’s okay when they do it /s
minus-squareMonkderZweite@feddit.chlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·11 months 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.