How to Remove an Android virus
If your Android device is playing up, there is a possibility it could have a virus. This guide will show you how to remove a virus from Android and how to avoid Android malware in the first place.
Although rare, android viruses exists and the best way to avoid an Android virus is to keep to the secured confines of the Google Play Store. Should your device get lumbered with some malware, we will explain how to put it into Safe mode, if necessary remove the malicious app’s administrator status and then uninstall the app. If this fails a factory reset should remove the bug once and for all, though you would understandably prefer not to have to do so.
Before anything else, let’s all assume your Android phone or tablet doesn’t have a virus (Use AVG Virus Scanner to confirm you have a virus). But if you’re convinced that malware is at large, then you have read the right article. Here are the instructions to remove viruses from your device.
The number-one way an Android virus finds its way on to your phone or tablet is on the back of an app. This is true of all the biggest Android viruses to hit the headlines over recent years: Gunpoder, Ghost Trojan, Googlian and Godless all came to be in this manner, while Mazar sneaks in via a text message asking you to download the Tor browser (guess what: you’re not downloading the Tor browser).
Recently, Checkpoint has notified Android users to the FalseGuide botnet malware, which gets on to user devices through dodgy walkthrough apps for Pokémon Go and FIFA found in Google Play, then turns them into silent botnets used for adware.
These apps get around Google’s defenses due to the non-malicious nature of their first component, says Checkpoint, but users should watch out by their request for device admin permission, which should not be given to any app. This prevents the app being deleted from your Android.
Android viruses have agendas such as running malicious processes on your device, some stealing your personal information and others downloading additional software, which may not always be malicious itself. Whatever it is, you don’t want them there.
1. Put your device into Safe mode. This avoids any third-party apps running, including any malware.
2. Open your Settings menu and choose Apps, then make sure you’re viewing the Downloaded tab.
3. Tap on the malicious app to open the App info page, then click Uninstall.
4. Simply untick the box for the app you want to remove, then tap Deactivate on the next screen.
5. With the virus now off your Android device, all you need to is reboot the device to take it out of Safe mode.
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