I've noticed that when I try to run Market Updates they download but then just get kinda stuck. As a test, I got rid of Lookout AntiVirus and boom, problem solved.
I pretty much only get apps from trusted sources so I'm not sure how much I need Lookout anyway. Can anyone recommend another antivirus program that doesn't screw up Market updates?
I use lookout with no issues in my market it downloads and installs just fine
evo running myn warm 2.2
whatsleft4her said:
I use lookout with no issues in my market it downloads and installs just fine
evo running myn warm 2.2
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Who knows. Could by the combination of the rom and kernel I am running. But getting rid of it definitely fixed the issue.
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I got rid of Lookout because the only reason I was using it anyways was for location/screaming. A few Tasker profiles replaced that.
mitchellvii said:
I've noticed that when I try to run Market Updates they download but then just get kinda stuck. As a test, I got rid of Lookout AntiVirus and boom, problem solved.
I pretty much only get apps from trusted sources so I'm not sure how much I need Lookout anyway. Can anyone recommend another antivirus program that doesn't screw up Market updates?
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I have Lookout and I have not had any issues with it... maybe you just need to uninstall and reinstall...
i have the same prob with antivirus pro.... especially when I am restoring from titanium. I just uninstalled it and no probs.... Market dls resumed like normal..
weird
tim
hi guys i got the kaspersky mobile security is it compatible with the htc desire hd?
if so how do i install it on the phone itself?
thanks
thedownloader_87
thedownloader_87 said:
hi guys i got the kaspersky mobile security is it compatible with the htc desire hd?
if so how do i install it on the phone itself?
thanks
thedownloader_87
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Can you tell me why? Is there any risk of viruses that you know?
There is only one known virus for Android, it's a media player that sends premium rate SMS's. I don't know what it's called but I'm not worried about viruses on my phone that's for sure.
And I'm pretty sure this "Media Player" is not available on the market. So when you tick the option to allow the installation non market apps, think about what your actually installing. And why its not on the market.
Hey its bout viruses its just i got a licence of the mobile security so i was thinking of using it.but i have no clue how to install in on it. thats all
thedownloader_87 said:
Hey its bout viruses its just i got a licence of the mobile security so i was thinking of using it.but i have no clue how to install in on it. thats all
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Have a Google, but I'd still have reservations about installing it. You'll never need it and it'll sit in the background, no doubt eating all of your battery.
Android is built upon Linux, and as most people know, Linux has almost no viruses. Only the user can run malicious code, and will need to run as root.
Your more at risk from malicious apps than you are from viruses. If you check what permissions an app asks for when installing it you can avoid potential upsets.
E.g. Why does this media player want to use services that cost me money?
I'm new to Android and I am wondering if you all plan to put some sort of antivirus program on your Xoom? Is this needed? If so, which programs are the best?
Thanks!
Malcus1
Don't think there are any viruses for Android.
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Malcus1 said:
I'm new to Android and I am wondering if you all plan to put some sort of antivirus program on your Xoom? Is this needed? If so, which programs are the best?
Thanks!
Malcus1
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Yes there are Viruses on Android. Most recently they were able to penetrate the actual Google marketplace. Before that most were found on third party sites which are not recommended to get apps from anyways. Most people dont use an anti virus but I believe this will change unless Google does something to prevent any other viruses from entering the market.
Lookout is a antivirus app that can found in the market. It is from a reputable company in the US. The app will scan your apps and compare to a database of known threats(free version is sufficient). While before the recent events I didnt worry about it either I now use Lookout. Something is better than nothing. But the best defense is common sense. Dont download from third party sites and always check the permissions an app is requesting before installing. A wallpaper app doesnt need access to every part of your phone. If it is asking for excessive permissions try to find another app that completes the same task with less permissions. Hope this helped.
I use lookout on my xoom. It just doesn't do the whole locate thing (a great feature) unless you have cellular service (which I do not) because it uses SMS for that feature
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Yes there are Viruses on Android. Most recently they were able to penetrate the actual Google marketplace. Before that most were found on third party sites which are not recommended to get apps from anyways. Most people dont use an anti virus but I believe this will change unless Google does something to prevent any other viruses from entering the market.
Lookout is a antivirus app that can found in the market. It is from a reputable company in the US. The app will scan your apps and compare to a database of known threats(free version is sufficient). While before the recent events I didnt worry about it either I now use Lookout. Something is better than nothing. But the best defense is common sense. Dont download from third party sites and always check the permissions an app is requesting before installing. A wallpaper app doesnt need access to every part of your phone. If it is asking for excessive permissions try to find another app that completes the same task with less permissions. Hope this helped.
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Thanks Droidz,
So it sounds like if I am cautious about which apps I download I should be alright. I tend to only download apps that have been downloaded by a large number of people with good reviews. Hopefully that will keep me safe. But I'll try out Lookout too.
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Thanks Droidz,
So it sounds like if I am cautious about which apps I download I should be alright. I tend to only download apps that have been downloaded by a large number of people with good reviews. Hopefully that will keep me safe. But I'll try out Lookout too.
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As long as you're not downloading shady apps (esp ones from outside of market) you'll be fine. Antivirus is really not necessary.
Hi,
When i used firefox this morning, avast warned me about a malware... I removed and installed again firefox, but there is still the malware. After a scan, avast is showing me about 20 apps and files infected... Is it some kind of false positive, or is it a real malware ? I don't know what to do... Thanks for help
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If it was me I'd flash the entire phone then re install stock firmware, but all my stuff is backed up I don't know about yours??
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AutruiP said:
Hi,
When i used firefox this morning, avast warned me about a malware... I removed and installed again firefox, but there is still the malware. After a scan, avast is showing me about 20 apps and files infected... Is it some kind of false positive, or is it a real malware ? I don't know what to do... Thanks for help
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I have the same issue as of this morning, Avast reporting Android:FakeInst-EY [Trj] on 10 installed apps. Is it possible it's an avast issue?
AutruiP said:
Hi,
When i used firefox this morning, avast warned me about a malware... I removed and installed again firefox, but there is still the malware. After a scan, avast is showing me about 20 apps and files infected... Is it some kind of false positive, or is it a real malware ? I don't know what to do... Thanks for help
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Its avast problem. I'm on S3 and Avast just showed me 30 malwares "Android:FakeInst-EY"
Avast Blog has this post, I suppose this is related to this:
Block fake apps
avast! Free Mobile Security blocks fake apps and our new signature targeting protects you against
malware distributed with them. Our popular anti-virus/anti-theft app for Android stops downloads of fake apps and games, so you won’t be duped.
“All of these apps use multiple advert services, steal your personal data and they even are hidden under different creators. But don’t worry. Avast detects all of the mentioned applications as Android:FakeInst-DL, and urls of fake searchers are blocked also,” said Chytrý.
Get avast! Free Mobile Security for your Android device from Google Play. Please add a review and share with your friends if you like it!
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Source: http://blog.avast.com/2013/01/24/fake-google-play-apps/
Similar problems in German Forums, but I could understand / translate the webpage.
http://www.computerbase.de/forum/showthread.php?t=1189186
http://www.android-hilfe.de/nexus-1...vast-als-trojaner-erkannt-auf-nexus-10-a.html
This has hit universally I suppose.
pharalia said:
I have the same issue as of this morning, Avast reporting Android:FakeInst-EY [Trj] on 10 installed apps. Is it possible it's an avast issue?
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Having the same issue. Avast posting that gmail is a trojan, which seems unlikely.
Looks like avast is really messing this one up this time!
Getting Android:FakeInst-EY [Trj] on WhatsApp, Ingress, Norton Utilities (lol), + a couple others as well
Thanks for confirming my suspicions, I didn't really want to wipe my device
Just to add, this happened to me this morning as well. 8 apps infected including Gmail. It seems this is on Avast.
Thanks everyone ! I have it on gmail too, and on Ingress. I checked with Lookout, and nothing bad happened ! Avast, u suck...
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It's look like an avast! problem. You need refresh the virus definition to 20130321-01.
Info on: forum.avast.com/index.php?topic=118778.0
It's a problem with Avast virus signature DB
http://forum.avast.com/index.php?topic=118778.0
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Hi everyone,
it seems that this false positive detection somehow got through our systems to everyone. I'm sorry for that. Don't worry though, there should be a virus definitions update soon that will remove this detection. I'm going to reroute all topics to this one and lock them so everyone knows what's happening. I'll post here when the update is out so everyone can do a manual update of their definitions to fix this (or you can, of course, wait for the automatic update to happen, but manual will most probably be faster in this case).
Filip
Happening to myself and my wife. Same malware identified in multiple applications (Google Gmail, Amazon Kindle)
Yup, same here. Avast reporting Gmail & Firefox as malware.
Same issue. Whatsapp and avocado are reported. Seems something wrong with avast. Considering to uninstall it
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From the avast forum link:
"the latest update should be version 130320-01. In case of user apps, you can run apps scan which should clear the detections. In case of system apps, running the apps should clear the detections (that applies for user apps as well, but it should be faster to just run the apps scan)."
I just went into avast and updated the app to 130320-01. It took a few times hitting the update button before it actually updated avast, but it finally did. Afterwards, I ran a virus scan on all my apps, and it came back clean. Problem solved.
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From the avast forum link:
"the latest update should be version 130320-01. In case of user apps, you can run apps scan which should clear the detections. In case of system apps, running the apps should clear the detections (that applies for user apps as well, but it should be faster to just run the apps scan)."
I just went into avast and updated the app to 130320-01. It took a few times hitting the update button before it actually updated avast, but it finally did. Afterwards, I ran a virus scan on all my apps, and it came back clean. Problem solved.
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Having the same issue. Avast posting that gmail is a trojan, which seems unlikely.
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The thing I find curious is I updated Gmail on both my phone & tablet at the same time. Phone update went fine with no detection. Tablet popped up the FakeInst:EY detection during Gmail install so thought maybe definition file wasn't up to date (or EVO3D had a newer def file). But both devices are running v130321-01 which is supposed to have the fix (?).
Rescanning both devices, EVO3D comes up clean but tablet now detects 4 apps w/malware! Have tried updating but says this is the latest version out there. As said, will wait for the next update after 130321-01 and see if it clears. Just odd that have two devices with same versions of Gmail & Avast (and updates/defs) and two different results!
Update: No new updates to avast, but reran scans a second time on both a second time 5 minutes later and this time both came up clean. How can that be? I guess most importantly, both are clear again though worries me when one "detects" (even w/false positive) while other doesn't with what appears to be same environment!
I got the same warning today for a few apps, i had already deleted Firefox....
I just updated Avast as said in this treat and no warnings anymore Time to reinstall Firefox
Check this link out: http://www.androidcentral.com/popular-mobile-security-app-avast-marking-gmail-malware
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Avast said:
it seems that this false positive detection somehow got through our systems to everyone. I'm sorry for that. Don't worry though, there should be a virus definitions update soon that will remove this detection. I'm going to reroute all topics to this one and lock them so everyone knows what's happening. I'll post here when the update is out so everyone can do a manual update of their definitions to fix this (or you can, of course, wait for the automatic update to happen, but manual will most probably be faster in this case)
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Update your avast antivirus to latest virus definitions and re scan the phone. all problems will be solved
Trojan.Generic in Nexus 4 toolkit ??
this morning trying to run Nexus 4 toolkit, it also reported "Trojan.Generic", and then stopped, even add it to trust file, still will not run, What's wrong.
Good evening,
I have a Samsung Galaxy Note 4 SM-N910c. I just bought a license kaspersky internet security multi device. At first everything works except that the last two days, the system application "smart manager" installed on my phone detect my kaspersky internet security device as malware and recommend me to remove it.
I use a rom custmers erobot v8
Thank you to help me to solve this problem.
Sorry for my bad English.
Cordially.
never use more than 1 antivirus in 1 device.
by the way, if you installed kaspersky from play store, there is a good chance that its just a false alarm.
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never use more than 1 antivirus in 1 device.
by the way, if you installed kaspersky from play store, there is a good chance that its just a false alarm.
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Thanks
I use 1 antivirus and note two. Smart manager is a system application and note an antivirus.
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Thanks
I use 1 antivirus and note two. Smart manager is a system application and note an antivirus.
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Nope..... Smart manager is an antivirus too.....
So if you activate your protection on smart manager, then the antivirus engine is active.
I have the same issue with Cerberus AND Kaspersky.
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I have the same issue with Cerberus AND Kaspersky.
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Now this is different..... Whose reporting who?
Have you contact BOTH developer?