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  36 apps Google has removed from Play Store, that you need to delete

  Posted by Nigel Brown on 14 November 2020 at 10:22 am

  Between July and October, 36 apps were been pulled off from the Google Play Store. You need to uninstall these apps right away in case you still have them installed.

  Google has been pulling off apps from the Play Store that have either been violating the Play Store policies or have been infected by malware, particularly the Joker malware.

  Joker first infected 11 apps on the Play Store in July, followed by 6 more apps in the first half of September. Then 17 more apps were been infected and were pulled off the app store in early October.

  Princess Salon, Number Coloring and Cats & Cosplay, that had more than 20 million downloads between them, have been pulled off by Google for violating Google’s data collection policies and potentially accessing users’ Android ID and AAID (Android Advertising ID) numbers, with the data leakage potentially connected to the apps being built using SDKs from Unity, Umeng and Appodeal.

  In all, so far 36 apps have been pulled off the Play Store for malware issues and other policy violations and you need to delete them right away in case you still have them on your phones.

  They are:

  Princess Salon

  Number Coloring

  Cats & Cosplay

  All Good PDF Scanner

  Mint Leaf Message-Your Private Message

  Unique Keyboard – Fancy Fonts & Free Emoticons

  Tangram App Lock

  Direct Messenger

  Private SMS

  One Sentence Translator – Multifunctional Translator

  Style Photo Collage

  Meticulous Scanner

  Desire Translate

  Talent Photo Editor – Blur focus

  Care message

  Part Message

  Paper Doc Scanner

  Blue Scanner

  Hummingbird PDF Converter – Photo to PDF

  All Good PDF Scanner

  com.imagecompress.android

  com.relax.relaxation.androidsms

  com.file.recovefiles

  com.training.memorygame

  com.contact.withme.texts

  com.cheery.message.sendsms (two different instances)

  com.LPlocker.lockapps

  Push Message- Texting & SMS

  Fingertip GameBox

  

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