Lee Duna@lemmy.nz to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 1 year agoAvast confirms it tagged Google app as malware on Android phoneswww.bleepingcomputer.comexternal-linkmessage-square9fedilinkarrow-up1128arrow-down126
arrow-up1102arrow-down1external-linkAvast confirms it tagged Google app as malware on Android phoneswww.bleepingcomputer.comLee Duna@lemmy.nz to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 1 year agomessage-square9fedilink
minus-squareCrogdor@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up75arrow-down1·1 year 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-up49arrow-down6·1 year agoSounds like avast’s heuristics are spot on, though. They just needed to exclude a corpo made malware.
minus-squareAceSLS@lemmy.sdf.orglinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up9arrow-down1·1 year agoIt’s google, it’s okay when they do it /s
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